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Date : Thu Oct 26 2023 11:30:06

The Honor Magic 6 will bring Apple Vision Pros coolest feature to your pocket

Date:
Thu, 26 Oct 2023 10:24:54 +0000

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Honor has debuted the Honor Magic 6, which will use on-device AI to introduce 
a range of smart features.

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Earlier this year, former Huawei subsidiary Honor wowed us with its excellent 
Honor Magic 5 Pro flagship, and the companys next major phone release  the 
Honor Magic 6  has the makings of being equally impressive. 

Where innovative display technology was the focus of the Magic 5 Pro, the 
Honor Magic 6 will (surprise!) place AI at the heart of its offering. By 
harnessing the power of Qualcomms newly announced Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset  
which we know has the potential to bring useful AI functionality to 
smartphone users  Honor says its upcoming device will utilize an on-device 
large language model (LLM) to usher in a new era of generative AI. 

What does that mean, exactly? Well, at Qualcomms latest Snapdragon Summit, 
Honor gave us a sneak peak at some of the exciting new features made possible 
by this built-in LLM. And one of them  Magic Capsule  appears to take its 
cues from Apples Vision Pro mixed reality headset. 

Honor describes Magic Capsule as an eye-tracking based multimodal 
interaction, which, in laymans terms, means youre able to navigate certain 
parts of the Honor Magic 6 interface using only your eyes (in a similar 
manner to Apple Vision Pro). 

We say certain parts, because it looks as though Magic Capsule refers to a 
Dynamic Island -like digital cut-out at the top of the phones display. 
Presumably, this eye-tracking technology will be limited to that cut-out, but 
its still exciting to think that a consumer smartphone may soon offer this 
type of hands-free functionality. 

At Snapdragon Summit 2023, Honor shared a render of Magic Capsule in action. 
In the short clip (above), a woman can be seen opening the Uber app by 
changing the direction of her gaze, so it figures that all manner of apps 
could make use of the feature in the Honor Magic 6. 

Beyond Magic Capsule, the Honor Magic 6 will also feature a virtual 
assistant, YOYO, that utilizes Qualcomms on-device AI to respond even when 
youre offline. 

Honor says this assistant can answer questions specific to you, as well as 
create short videos featuring photos and footage stored on [your] device. 
Sure, that all sounds a little creepy, but this seems to be the general 
direction in which the entire mobile industry is headed at the moment. 

Honor hasnt provided a time frame for the Magic 6s release, but given that 
the company debuted the Magic 5 Pro at MWC Barcelona 2023, well likely see 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/phones/honor-phones/the-honor-magic-6-will-bring-app
le-vision-pros-coolest-feature-to-your-pocket


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