Chinese company starts making high-resolution face unlock modules

Q Technology, a company that is developing structured-light 3D scanning modules for smartphones, states that it achieved а breakthrough in development and is now starting production of 1 million modules, ordered by a Chinese phone maker. While this information isn't exactly thrilling, it's worth looking at what structured-light 3D scanning is and what it will be used for.

Its use won't surprise you, 3D scanning in the smartphone industry usually means face unlocking. So how does this differ from Apple's Face ID or other similar technologies.

Structured-light 3D scanning is not a ...