What kind of magic is this: With nothing more than the HONOR Magic 6 Pro phone, an automotive expert can drive a large family car just by looking at the phone’s selfie camera. It’s not a trick: HONOR actually did this at the MWC exhibition in Barcelona, and it’s a glimpse of the future. With powerful phones, incredible AI and precise eye tracking, driving cars is just the beginning.
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What’s so incredible about HONOR’s AI?
The same technology that HONOR used to control the car could soon be used for our everyday apps. Imagine scrolling through a recipe with your eyes while your hands are busy preparing dinner, or opening a message with your eyes while steering your shopping cart through a supermarket. And that’s just the beginning of what AI will bring to our phones.
There are no tricks here, no gimmicks, no CGI: just the HONOR Magic Pro 6, its AI and its eye-tracking. By keeping track of which part of the screen you are looking at, you can use the phone to send direct commands to the car: engine on, engine off, forward and reverse. And you don’t have to worry about accidentally sending commands: the eye tracking can tell the difference between an intentional look and an accidental look.
The magical portal that powers your phone
That’s because the Magic Portal understands the intent: not just what app you’re in, but also what you want to do. Instead of having to take multiple steps to get things done, Magic Portal knows what the most likely goals will be and shows you the most suitable options. It’s like having a personal assistant who knows exactly what you want, whenever you want it and wherever you need it. Imagine Iron Man’s Jarvis, but without having to walk around in a giant metal suit.
One of HONOR’s latest innovations is called the Magic Portal, and it’s an AI-powered feature that can understand what you’re trying to do and make it happen. So, for example, if you want to drag content from a website and share it on your social media, or see if there’s a really nice bag available on eBay, or get your friend’s address through your messaging app, send it to Maps and start navigating right away, the Magic Portal would do all that immediately and effortlessly.
The future of phones knows exactly what you need
Right now, most smartphones rely mainly on screen taps and simple voice commands. But as HONOR demonstrates with its MagicOS 8.0, the phones of the future will pay much more attention and respond much more intelligently. They listen to your words, follow your eyes and look at your fingers to automatically identify what you are doing, but also what you want to do.
The difference between what HONOR is demonstrating and what existing technology offers is that HONOR’s MagicOS features what the company calls a “multimodal intent recognition engine.” That uses multiple sensors to track your gestures, track your eye position, and listen to your voice in real time with incredible accuracy.
This means your phone knows exactly what you are doing and passes this information directly to the Magic Live AI Engine. That’s where the magic of MagicOS lives: it’s an immensely powerful and incredibly smart AI system that can turn this input into action, whether it’s sending an image to an app, adjusting the text as you read or driving an entire car.
We have seen the future and it looks good
What’s really exciting about this is that MagicOS can also lend that power to all kinds of apps: the apps you use to communicate with your friends or family, the apps you use for work or to travel, the apps you used for entertainment and adventure. By enabling your apps to understand you better, HONOR is paving the way for the next generation of apps: apps that will make life simpler, more interesting and much more fun.
Click here to learn more about HONOR’s amazing car experiment, the innovative MagicOS and how AI and intent analytics will transform the way we use our phones – and perhaps our cars too.