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Pixel face unlock has been embarrassingly behind Face ID since the Pixel 4 shipped Soli radar and killed it off. The phrase 'on par with iPhone Face ID' is doing serious heavy lifting here, because Face ID is not just a camera trick but a hardware depth matrix that Apple has tuned for years. Hardware depth sensing on Android has been dead or dying since Project Tango got quietly murdered, so either Google found another way or this is vaporware with a nice blog post behind it. What specific hardware or algorithmic breakthrough is Google actually claiming here