Point At Someone, Learn Their Social Media Quotient
A new augmented reality technology that allows people to point a smartphone at a stranger and learn about them via social media premiered last week in Spain.
The Swedish mobile software firm that designed the tech, The Astonishing Tribe, told MIT Technology Review that their software takes “social networking to the next level.”
A user could point their phone with a 5 megapixel camera at anyone nearby. The software detects the subject’s face and matches it with a database in the cloud.
Right now, users will have to opt in to the database, but if they have, the software will pull in the subject’s social media data and display it on the person’s face.
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