This year’s CES was somewhat more exciting compared to previous ones. CES 2020 was full of invisible tech as OnePlus just showcased it OnePlus Concept One with invisible camera. How can Samsung lag behind when it comes to innovation so Samsung showcased an innovative piece of technology that and named it ‘Selfie Type’ which is a software based product from the house of ‘C Lab’ which comes under the incubation of Samsung. Let’s know more about this technology.
The Science Behind ‘Selfie Type’
Before Samsung officially introduced this technology during CES 2020, we already had a glimpse of its working as a video somehow surfaced on a Korean community.
In that video we saw a person writing an email with the help of ‘Selfie Type’, His device was standing still on a dock and he was moving his fingers across a table and somehow everything that he tried to type was being displayed on the screen quite accurately and today Samsung showcased the same.
‘Selfie Type’ doesn’t make use of any hardware components just selfie camera of your device. It makes use of some algorithm and track position of your fingers as you move them. The things that you should keep in mind while using this technology is that you must have to keep your fingers under a certain range that varies from device to device and depends on the field of view of your selfie camera.
But the drawback here is that you don’t get any feedback as you type something that you can normally see on a device virtual keyboard. Usually when we type something on our virtual keyboard of our mobile devices we get feedback like a vibration or a click sound that ensures you that you have written something but this is not the case with ‘Selfie Type’ you can’t receive any feedback as you are typing on a surface like a table.
Second drawback is that while typing on a normal virtual keyboard you can see which key you are pressing but you can see or even guess which key are you pressing that makes this typing experience more complex and unfaithful to use in normal working situations.
This feature is expected to roll out to various Samsung devices as an OTA or Over The Air update and it is quite definite that upcoming Samsung device will come with this ‘Selfie Type’ feature out of the box. But C-Lab need to somehow fix the feedback and typing analogy to make this technology reach the masses. We ourselves are quite excited to get our hands on this amazing and innovative technology and write an amazing article for you guys using the same invisible keyboard i.e. ‘Selfie Type’.
