DEFEAT HARDWARE FINGERPRINT WINDOWS
It’s unclear if this feature will use Windows Hello-enabled webcams to check if you’re still at your PC, but Microsoft would make these webcams more interesting if it does.
DEFEAT HARDWARE FINGERPRINT PC
This feature will be able to automatically lock your PC when you step away from it. Microsoft is reportedly working on a “dynamic locking” feature that’s known as “ Windows Goodbye” internally. These webcams promise facial recognition on your existing PC, but you may want to wait for future Windows Hello-compatible webcams with solid reviews. The $129 Tobii eye tracking gaming peripheral also claims to support Windows Hello. The Razer Stargazer webcam (shown below) incorporates Intel RealSense hardware and should work with Windows Hello, but is a whopping $150-not to mention some less-than-stellar reviews. Intel’s RealSense hardware supports Windows Hello, but Intel just sells it as a developer kit. However, the selection of Windows Hello-compatible webcams is pretty terrible. You can also purchase Windows Hello-compatible webcams that will automatically sign you into your PC by looking at your face, too. So we’d recommend going with the Eikon instead.īoth readers are designed for laptops, although there are desktop versions available with a cable attached. The BIO-key SideSwipe Compact USB Fingerprint Reader ($40) is officially endorsed and sold by Microsoft, but didn’t work as well in our tests. We sometimes had to swipe multiple times to sign in with the BIO-key reader, but we never had to swipe more than once with the Eikon reader. It’s the cheaper, smaller, and more reliable of the two we tested, so there’s no reason not to go with it. We recommend the Eikon Mini Fingerprint Reader ($25). We’ve tested two different USB fingerprint readers from different manufacturers (yes, just two-there still aren’t many Windows Hello-compatible readers out there). Not every fingerprint reader will work with Windows Hello-it needs to be designed with Hello in mind. If you have a pre-Hello laptop or desktop, though, you’ll need to buy some sort of Hello-compatible device. Some modern laptops and tablets have Windows Hello-compatible fingerprint readers and webcams, so it may just work out of the box (if that’s you, skip down to the next section). You’ll need compatible hardware to use Windows Hello. The Different Ways to Log In Using Windows Hello
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