Honor’s Magic 6 eye-tracking feature lets you open apps using your eyes

The Magic 6's "Magic Capture" is an eye-tracking feature that will allow you to open apps using your eyes

Honor Magic 6 with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 comes with an LLM with 7 billion parameters (Image credit: Anuj Bhatia/The Indian Express)

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During the second day of the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii, Honor CEO George Zhao took the stage and surprised the audience by teasing its forthcoming Magic 6 smartphone. However, what surprised many was a feature that allows you to interact with the device using your eyes.

During the keynote, Honor briefly teased a feature called “Magic Capsule,” which resembles Apple’s Dynamic Island on the iPhone but with eye-tracking support. It wasn’t a live demonstration; rather, it was a teaser featuring a woman holding the Magic 6 phone and looking at her phone with an Uber app running at the top of the screen. By changing the direction of her gaze, she opens the app.

The device comes with AI-powered eye-tracking technology (Image credit: Anuj Bhatia/The Indian Express)

Honor describes this technology as “eye-tracking-based multimodal interaction.” The company didn’t go into detail about how this technology works, but the feature does showcase the AI capabilities of the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, which will power the Magic 6 and many more flagship smartphones.

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The handset maker also provided a preview of what is possible with on-device Gen AI. One of the prominent features of the Magic 6 is a virtual assistant that takes advantage of Qualcomm’s on-device AI. Honor showed a video of how a person creates a compilation using videos stored on their phone. The software then recognizes different people in a video and refines its results by only displaying items of them smiling or engaging in other actions. Honor states that the Magic 6’s LLM is distinct from cloud-based LLMs, as those are trained on publicly accessible datasets. However, in the case of the Magic 6, it “draws from its understanding of the device’s user to provide personalized services according to their preferences.”

Magic 6 offers several new AI-specific features (Image credit: Anuj Bhatia/The Indian Express)

Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled the Snapdragon Series 8 Gen 3 for high-end Android smartphones. The chipset will seen in most “premium” Android devices early next year from brands including OnePlus, Vivo and Sony. The processor runs large language models, similar to the technology behind ChatGPT on the phone itself.

Anuj Bhatia

Anuj Bhatia is a personal technology writer at indianexpress.com who has been covering smartphones, personal computers, gaming, apps, and lifestyle tech actively since 2011. He specialises in writing longer-form feature articles and explainers on trending tech topics. His unique interests encompass delving into vintage tech, retro gaming and composing in-depth narratives on the intersection of history, technology, and popular culture. He covers major international tech conferences and product launches from the world's biggest and most valuable tech brands including Apple, Google and others. At the same time, he also extensively covers indie, home-grown tech startups. Prior to joining The Indian Express in late 2016, he served as a senior tech writer at My Mobile magazine and previously held roles as a reviewer and tech writer at Gizbot. Anuj holds a postgraduate degree from Banaras Hindu University. You can find Anuj on Linkedin. Email: anuj.bhatia@indianexpress.com ... Read More

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