Honor showed how it can use its smartphone eye-tracking technology to control a car.
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BARCELONA – Chinese company Honor on Sunday demonstrated technology that allows users to control their cars using just their eyes.
The company’s Magic 6 Pro device was launched globally on Sunday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. As part of the press conference, Honor showed off eye-tracking technology in smartphones. The phone uses a selfie camera and artificial intelligence to track where your eyes are looking on the screen.
One demonstration involved an app that controlled a car. The app has four commands – engine start, engine stop, reverse and forward.
In a video about the feature, Honor showed how a person could stare at one of the commands and the car would perform a function such as move forward.
While there’s no word on whether the feature will actually be rolled out with automakers, Honor is trying to showcase the new technology in its devices as smartphone makers look to compete with each other with artificial intelligence capabilities.
In 2020, Huawei was forced to sell Honor to a consortium of buyers to save the brand from US sanctions. Honor has since launched devices including foldable phones in an attempt to grow in the high-end market. Honor is currently the fourth-largest smartphone maker in China, but is still very small globally.
The company hopes forward-thinking features like eye tracking will help boost the appeal of its smartphones.
One feature introduced overseas by Honor Magic 6 Pro is the ability to open apps just by looking at the phone. When a notification pops up at the top of the screen, users just have to look at it and the eye-tracking technology will open the relevant app.
With artificial intelligence becoming a hot topic at MWC, the world’s largest mobile trade show, Honor also showed off a concept chatbot based on artificial intelligence Yuan Llama2, a so-called large language model that developers can use to create artificial intelligence applications.
In the demo video, users can be seen asking the chatbot about things to do in Barcelona and writing a poem about MWC.
It’s unclear when the feature will launch.
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