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Re:Face ID and Touch ID for the Web by adamleithp on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:47PM (#23632179)
The keynote a few days ago failed to mention FaceID used to opening your mac... and this video shows/mentions FaceID on a macOS11 website?

Seems they missed a step here with rolling it out, or are withholding the obvious. I'm assuming the latter.

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Re:Face ID and Touch ID for the Web by JimDabell on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:09PM (#23632454)
This video shows Touch ID being used with a laptop, not Face ID.

The interface is generic, so it should use Face ID on devices that have Face ID hardware, and Touch ID on devices that have Touch ID hardware.

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Re:Face ID and Touch ID for the Web by goalieca on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:53AM (#23640755)
FaceID requires special cameras and infrared lighting system. Perhaps they would add that to the mbp one day but that would be a crazy leak if they showed off that capability now.
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Re:Face ID and Touch ID for the Web by sirn on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:42PM (#23633613)
Apple supports WebAuthn on iOS/iPadOS as well (since iOS/iPadOS 13) so presumably FaceID part is referring to iOS/iPadOS.
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