The Honor Magic 6 Pro has a crazy feature that allows you to control your car using just your eyes, and we tested it.

We’ve been seeing hands-free driving for years thanks to self-driving systems from companies like Tesla. In fact, the company founded and led by Elon Musk also allows you to control your vehicles through your mobile phone. This is a very useful feature that allows you to move your car out of a parking space or start it remotely – if for some reason that’s what you need – and Honor has taken it one step further with the release of one of its latest smartphones: Honor Magic 6 Pro.

The company allowed you to drive a car using only your eyes. All this with Magic 6 Pro and through the eye tracking function, which is integrated into the device itself, and which, according to Honor, works thanks to sensors built into the front camera area and with the help of artificial intelligence. IN Hypertext We were able to test it using the aforementioned mobile phone and a car whose model we don’t know because it was covered in vinyl, hiding its design.

The operation is very simple. Honor Magic 6 Pro has an application that connects to a computer, which, in turn, connects to the car via a wireless network. It is this computer that receives the action that we choose with our gaze and quickly sends a command to the car to start, move forward or backward. The app also has a security measure that prevents the device from performing an unwanted action if you accidentally look at another part of the screen.

Either way, for this to work, you need to use the app in a self-driving car. This is because it needs sensors to detect obstacles and prevent it from colliding with anything.

Here’s how Honor Magic 6 Pro’s eye tracking works, allowing you to control your car using your eyes

The first step to driving with your eyes set up eye tracking. This can be done from the system settings, in the Honor Assistant section, and you just need to hold your gaze for a few seconds at different points on the screen. Honor then uses an app designed solely to control the car without the need for manual input. In particular, we can turn the car on and off, move forward or backward. And to do this, you just need to keep an eye on the different fields in which the options appear.

However, how it works? The Honor Magic 6 Pro excels at eye tracking and performs very well in most situations. However, in some cases it is necessary to restart the application and monitor the log so that it can determine where we are looking. Or even look outside the screen to trick the system into thinking we’re looking directly at the action.

What role does AI play here? The AI ​​doesn’t really do much with this option since the feature is supported primarily by the depth sensor equipped with the front camera.

Is this something really useful? Honor has detailed to this medium that the purpose of eye driving is to showcase the capabilities of the Magic 6 Pro in terms of eye tracking, since the truth is that driving a car is something that we can easily do by pressing a part of our finger. actions. Although there may be cases where this is somewhat useful; For example, if your hands are dirty and you don’t want to touch your mobile phone screen, clicking on this option will always be faster and easier.

In any case, the Honor Magic 6 Pro’s eye tracking also serves to guide the gaze of certain app actions. Something that can also be useful if, for example, our hands are full and our mobile phone is lying on a surface.