Amazon took the wraps off its latest fleet of consumer devices.
Expanding its retail empire isn’t Amazon’s only pursuit, and it made that clear on Thursday when it took the wraps off its latest fleet of consumer devices. Among the most interesting is the new Echo Show 10, an update to its display-equipped smart speaker line that can automatically swivel around to follow its users in a room.
Like the retired camera, the new smart speaker can distinguish human forms using computer vision. Combined with sound-based location tracking, the tech allows the Echo Show 10 to pinpoint where subjects are in the room and move along with them. Software allows the 13-megapixel camera to digitally pan and zoom in on one or more subjects for Skype or upcoming video calls, as well as Amazon’s own Chime service for video conferencing.
To underscore the privacy aspect, Amazon built in some protections: Users can shut off the camera and block movement tracking in the Alexa app or by vocalizing, “Alexa, turn off motion.” Even if the camera stays on, the Show 10 doesn’t follow people around all the time, only when owners are using the device.
The appliance also features Amazon’s latest machine learning-capable processor. That matters, because the unit can perform more of its intelligence computations on the device without having to send all data out to Amazon servers. However, it still sends voice recordings to Amazon, so it can make them available in the app. Users can delete them from there.
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