I grew up in the nineties when two of my key cultural touchstones were spoon-bending TV illusionist Uri Geller and the film version of Matilda starring young Mara Wilson, in which she makes objects levitate at will. As a result, I thought it was in the cards for me to make something magical happen simply by concentrating and staring at an object really, really hard.
I never did get a spoon to bend or glass of water to fall over with my mind, but I didn’t totally lose faith. Turns out that I can make things move simply by concentrating and staring — I just needed help from technology company Honor.
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At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, Honor revealed its latest flagship phone, the Magic 6 Pro. Alongside the unveiling, it demoed how to use the phone’s eye-tracking capabilities to perform tasks including moving an entire actual car via an app with remote controls. I didn’t move a car, but I did get to try out how the technology works on the Magic 6 Pro for myself.
I started off by calibrating the phone so it would recognize my eye movements. This is similar process to setting up your biometric passcode on any of your devices. The entire calibration can’t have taken more than 10 seconds. The Magic Capsule at the top of the phone’s display tracked my eyes as they followed a dot around the screen, after which I was ready to go.
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Setting up eye-tracking was extremely quick.
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