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by jclay 2516 days ago
This is absolutely legitimate. I was approached by a Google Rep and completed the series of tests for the $5 gift card. Mostly out of curiosity to see what they’re up to.

It’s using what appeared to be a Pixel 3 with a heavy duty case wrapped around containing an additional camera and some sensors. I went through all of the poses one would do if they were training a model to perform similarly to FaceID. (Ok, now pull the phone out of your pocket and look directly at it. Look up at me then down at the phone, etc.)

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How do you it was a Google rep? I mean provably.
According this article, Google confirms that it is conducting field research of facial scanning: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/29/8934804/google-pixel-4-fa...