Talking about the Face ID, there won't be any major changes to the Tru -
depth camera hardware.
Not exact matches
The three main
hardware components are off - the - shelf: a visible - light
camera, a multi-array microphone and an infrared
depth sensor that sprays your room with hundreds of IR dots.
Those controllers, called Joy - Cons, are packed with tons of interesting
hardware: Each one packs a number of buttons, an analog joystick, plus a gyroscope, an accelerometer, an NFC reader and an infrared
depth camera.
And it's also true that it's less secure than other authentication methods, like Apple's FaceID, which OnePlus doesn't deny — its facial mapping solution, which uses the OnePlus 5T's front - facing RGB
camera, consists of a hundred
depth data points compared to the thousands captured by dedicated
hardware.
The new smartphones take the same general design as the Galaxy S8 devices, with slightly slimmer bezels on the top and bottom.The headline feature of the S9 and S9 + is a 12 - megapixel dual lens
camera, boasting the first variable aperture system built into a smartphone, which promises better results in low light conditions and
hardware - based shallow
depth of field effects.
As with the iPhone 7 line, the bigger model leverages the two rear - facing
cameras to add
depth to photos without the need for expensive
hardware and large lenses required by dedicated
cameras.
A complete failure to make use of the Asus Zenfone AR's
hardware, this doesn't actually use the triple
camera to detect the
depth of a scene, instead using the low - fi approach of taking multiple photos with different points of focus.
The one eyesore is the Tango
hardware slapped on the upper half of the back of the phone, a metal plate where all of the
camera and IR and
depth sensors live.
Taking its place is the company's newest AR project, ARCore, which was launched earlier in 2017 and doesn't require specific
hardware like
depth - sensing
cameras.
Tango used custom
hardware such as RGB
cameras, fisheye motion tracking
cameras, IR
depth sensors, accelerometers, etc. to see in full 3D.
They are both optimized with extra
hardware — such as a barometer, motion - tracking
camera, and an infrared
depth - sensing
camera — which improve the function of various AR applications.
And as we discovered with the Moto Z2 Force, which contains better
camera hardware, Motorola's
depth algorithms need a lot of work.
This handset is fitted with the necessary
hardware to support Tango, including multiple
cameras and sensors that will be used for motion tracking and
depth sensing.