Vivo’s new sensor tech could be the future of face unlock

Last week Vivo announced its latest innovation in the field of cramming innovative components into phone-sized devices: a time-of-flight 3D scanner with 300,000 sensor points. I had a chance to test the tech out when I dropped in on MWC Shanghai this week, and it's clear that while things are still very early, we are rapidly approaching the point where your phone is just straight-up going to be able to capture a 3D representation of your head.

The demo Vivo set up starts with a face-registering UI very similar to what you'd see with Face ID — place your head in a circle, turn it left then right, and you're set. Then, after a bit of loading, you're presented with a fully textured 3D model of your head that you can rotate at will. You can...

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