But can it see through clothing?
interestingly - they are already integrating this into clothing. Specifically Levis jackets.
Source - A close friend of mine is on the Soli team.
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#22This small radard is sensitive enough to identify playing cards by looking at the tiny texture. Looking forward to seeing magicians using this in card tricks. Face ID with hyper sensitive radard should also be very accurate.
RFID magic cards probably already exist ...
They do ... That's how they know what each player have in his hands at poker tournament live feeds
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Random side-fact: a co-worker who climbs a lot stopped using fingerprint sensors on his phones because his prints change frequently enough due to climbing, that it's basically useless.
Many years ago I had to clock in and out of a job with a fingerprint scanner. I had the same issue because I played acoustic guitar a lot and had thick calluses on my fingers that would occasionally crack.
Mandolin positions your finger such that the callouses form even further onto the fingerprint than with guitar. I gave up on TouchID with my left hand (thumb still worked, though), and FaceID was a nice upgrade.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do facial recognition systems retrain themselves to compensate for change caused by growth or age?
Random side-fact: a co-worker who climbs a lot stopped using fingerprint sensors on his phones because his prints change frequently enough due to climbing, that it's basically useless.
Likewise for weightlifting hook-grip, which squashes your thumbs against the bar's knurling.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
RFID magic cards probably already exist ...
They do ... That's how they know what each player have in his hands at poker tournament live feeds
Hmm are you sure? I thought they were just using hole cams still. Little cameras built into the rail or into the table that players just showed their hands to while playing.
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#26so if I understand this correctly, if it can pass through many materials then does that include clothing? so a passive the target system by which you can determine what they have hidden on their person? what is the range?
set it recognize certain shapes, walk past a sensor laden wall, and have it high light in bright green images objects of interest like total recall?
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#27Inane gos, but I see a Monzo card at 1:35. That means this was very probably developed in the UK? I have to say the branding choice for the colour of that card was a pretty brilliant move.
Tangential, but I can’t find a definition for gos online, is that an abbreviation for something?
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many years ago I had to clock in and out of a job with a fingerprint scanner. I had the same issue because I played acoustic guitar a lot and had thick calluses on my fingers that would occasionally crack.
> Many years ago I had to clock in and out of a job with a fingerprint scanner. Interesting, I don't think I've ever heard of a company doing this. Was it like a second factor in addition to some type of card reader?
It was an entry-level IT support job at a US public school district circa 2005. They had just recently installed the scanners at every building. I believe that part-time and hourly employees like custodians, mechanics, groundskeepers, and cafeteria workers were the primary target, but the policy also extended to the tech support department (which was only me).
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#29I can’t say I see the win with the from a HCI standpoint. I personally lust for more tactile feedback, not less!
The virtual watch crown in combination with Apples haptic engine would be awesome.
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#30I can’t say I see the win with the from a HCI standpoint. I personally lust for more tactile feedback, not less!
The big gain I see is enabling more controls on smaller devices. Right now physical size is a hard limitation on the number of different control interfaces (buttons or screens or, for future devices with Soli or it's kin on board, gestures), with Soli though the whole volume above the object becomes interface space and the limit is the number of gestures that can be recognized.