Microsoft’s Surface Pro X hybrid has got fifty new AI-powered features, which should be a big advantage for the many people who now work at home due to the ongoing situation around Covid-19.
Eye Contact uses artificial intelligence routines – in combination with the AR X processor Pro X – to adjust your gaze and make it look like you are making direct eye contact (hence the name) with the person (or people) at the time. other end of the video call.
As you can imagine, with all the video conferencing going on due to distance, this can get pretty handy all day long for at least some Surface Pro X users. It should make video calls feel much more natural, which is always good – and can be especially useful for something like an interview or sales call that happens remotely.
The Eye Contact feature comes with the latest firmware for the Surface Pro X now rolling out, and the feature was tested earlier in July. It should work with all video calling apps, not just Microsoft’s own Teams and Skype, but also Zoom’s likes.
There are a few caveats, including that the Surface device may not be in landscape mode when performing the function, and it uses some battery power, all of which Microsoft made clear when it first announced Eye Contact for testing.
SQ1 only
Further note that Eye Contact will not come on other Surface devices, as it specifically uses the integrated AI processing chips of the Pro X’s SQ1 CPU. Although perhaps further down the line that situation can change, who knows; but for now it seems like this is an exclusive feature for the Surface Pro X.
The new firmware for the Surface Pro X also accompanies several security and stability updates, and repairs a crash with the Camera app.
Microsoft’s Surface Book 2 also received a Firmware update to improve Windows Hello login and fix stability fixes, as well as the solution to a long-standing (and extremely frustrating) problem where the processor malfunctioned up to 400MHz.
What’s interesting about the latest issue is that Microsoft had promised that this CPU error was fixed with a Firmware update released in October 2019, so most likely this will stream the bugbear for the last time – fingers crossed that is the case , by all means.
Via Neowin
