Blippar, a company dedicated to the world of virtual reality, has just added to its application recognition a feature that can give a lot to talk about: now, with just someone's photo, you can find out who they are If at Initially the application was focused on recognizing mundane objects of our daily lives, the company has decided to go a step further in what many consider a total invasion of privacy of people.
It works as follows: you go down the street and you come across a person who sounds familiar to you.You take out your smartphone camera, you point at his face and suddenly the app gives you all the information on Internet about that person. You are watching an interview on television: you try to find out who the interviewee is, you know you know him but you doubt. So, you unlock the phone, open Blippar and focus the camera on the screen. Quickly, it will open a link to Wikipedia whose name is said. Chilling?
The creator of the application Omar Tayeb assures that they already have registered in their database more than 70,000 public figures and that, however, said tool does not represent an invasion of anyone's privacy, since each one is free to allow the app to show their information or, directly, suspend this service .Also, whether for promotional reasons or simple narcissism, one can scan one's face directly and associate it with the application. Tayeb ensures that the application is so sophisticated that it can guess if it is you who is taking photos to add it to the database later or if, on the contrary, is someone who intends to do it for you, with not very good intentions.
For now, you can download the application directly from this Play Store link. As soon as you install it on your mobile, it asks you foraccess to camera and location Next, the camera opens and that's when you can start blipping. We have tested it directly from our living room and the truth is that the speed with which it identifies objects and animals is fascinating. We have tried to aim directly at a person and, fortunately or unfortunately, it has not recognized it.Although close sources say that the application has just added facial recognition functionality, in this version that we have downloaded it does not appear. We'll probably be an update in the coming weeks.
Honestly, we don't know what to think of this new development in the field of social issues. At the end of the day, it will depend on the use that is given to it, although in this case we have our doubts. What good is an app that tells you, instantly, who we are talking to? Where will be that mystery of getting to know a person little by little? How many of us don't look like others on social media? It is always said that on this type of platform one only teaches the best of himself Wouldn't we be creating a false network of contacts , a distorted way of meeting other people?
