Tech start-up SocialRecall is developing an AR app to help event attendees recognise each other.
Prosopagnosia is a neurological condition which causes people to struggle to recognise people they have met, even those they have known for years, or even decades. SocialRecall, founded by Harvard neuroscience Ph.D Barry Sandrew thinks AR might be the answer.
The app will allow event planners to create events where attendees need to sign in via social media. For the duration of that event, the app will link an attendees face to their profile page by using facial recognition technology and smartphone cameras to match the two together. “The camera does not take pictures; it merely sees a face, searches the database. and shows a person’s information, along with their company name,” Sandrew explained.
Sandrew expects the app will become more popular and useful once AR smart glasses become more popular,...
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