Samsung’s SelfieType Brings a Virtual Keyboard to Your Phone

Dec. 31, 2019

Samsung hasn’t revealed a lot of details about SelfieType but the official blog post states that it’s a virtual keyboard that you can type on via the selfie camera on your devices. Itdoesn’t require you to attach any additional hardware– as is usually the case with holographic keyboards. Samsung is employing a “proprietary SelfieType AI engine” which reads your finger movements via the selfie camera up-front to instantly convert the input into QWERTY content.

SelfieType is a catchy name for the feature and we can’t wait to check it out while we are on the ground at the CES show floor in Las Vegas. Since it’s aC-Lab project, this new AI-enabled project will most likely be in its nascent stages. But, if it’s good enough then we can expect Samsung to one day bring SelfieType to its own smartphones as just another alternative to typing on glass slabs.