No visual Hello on SP4?

[LiveToSeeTheFuture]

I saw a PC World article which said that the camera on the SP4 won't support Hello - that only the thumbprint reader on the keyboard will do this. Is that correct? If so, seems like a big miss for the first Pro released after Windows 10.

 

[theefman]

Nah, that's incorrect, it has the camera for Hello.

 

[ttsoldier]

The finger print reader is for the Surface Pro 3 users.

"Surface Pro 4 users won’t need to use it, because the SP4’s 8-megapixel front camera offers full support for Windows Hello’s facial recognition technology."

Microsoft's $899 Surface Pro 4 is thin and fast, with Skylake and an insanely crisp screen | PCWorld

 

[LiveToSeeTheFuture]

So this article must be wrong:
[h=1]Hands on: Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 outdoes itself with more power and refined features[/h]

 

[theefman]

So this article must be wrong:
[h=1]Hands on: Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 outdoes itself with more power and refined features[/h]

Yep, its wrong.

 

[LiveToSeeTheFuture]

That doesn't make my decision about what to get any easier

 

[LiveToSeeTheFuture]

Ok, so the video in the article that you referenced says "One thing that we expected to see with the SP4 was the depth camera. We haven't seen that". Is there any other official MS source which confirms that the day 1 SP4s will have it?

 

[QuentinJ]

See this specs sheet on page 2: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op...oad/presskits/surface/docs/surfacepro4fs.docx under camera "Windows Hello face-authentication camera (front-facing) "