App lets you scan people's Faces and reveal everything about them
Augmented reality app lets you scan people's FACES and
reveal everything about them
Blippar will let you scan a person's face in real life,
on TV or in print to unlock their profile
10:17, 6 DEC 2016 UPDATED 16:20, 6 DEC 2016
Blippar is an app that uses your smartphone's camera to
reveal more about the world through augmented reality .
Today, the company behind the app has announced that
facial recognition will be introduced so you can scan other people and reveal
their profile.
It's billed as the world's first facial recognition for
phones.
The profiles are strictly an opt-in only experience,
meaning members of the public have to go through a process to get their faces
recognised and turned on before they become “blippable”.
They can switch their profiles ‘on’ and ‘off’ as they
wish.
The app can also be used to scan faces on TV or in print
- meaning you could look up a particular actor or musician.
"Over 70,000 public figures will be automatically
discoverable with information drawn from publicly accessible sources unless
they choose to set up their own AR Face profile, giving them control of the
information communicated," said Blippar in a press release.
"Users can add personalized content to express their
personality in the form of photos, favourite music and current AR mood,"
the company said.
"As well as discovering who is your celebrity look
alike is, there is also an option to build connections between yourself and the
millions of objects, concepts and entities that exist in Blippar’s knowledge
graph."
Users are becoming more familiar with augmented reality
following the success of Pokemon Go in the summer.
Facial recognition is also being explored in various
different areas.
For example, Jaguar Land Rover is developing technology
that uses facial recognition and gait analysis to unlock car doors.
Cameras mounted under the windows of the doors would
capture both video and still images of someone walking and standing by the car.
But it remains to be seen how people deal with having
their faces scanned by other smartphone users.
You can download Blippar for both iOS and Android if you
want to try it yourself.
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