WIRED о камбэке QR-кодов: как их видят и используют FB Messenger, Spotify, WeChat, Google Allo и Snap; об их новом назначении в окончательно оцифрованном физическом мире; и о том, почему ваш следующий кофаундер, скорей всего, захочет давно забытые квадратики и точки в вашем новом приложении.
"Now that people expect more power from their smartphone cameras, replacing a search box with a viewfinder just feels right. Want to share your new jam? Send them a Spotify code. Need KLM support? Scan its Facebook Messenger code at the airport. Since Snapcodes exist, you can expect Instagram to roll out Instacodes any minute now.
And if you squint a little, you can see what comes next. Ouimet and his team spent a chunk of 2016 tweaking their tech in order to bake code-reading capabilities in Snap's new Spectacles. Turns out scanning a code makes pairing the camera glasses a cinch. "Evan's vision for Specs is that they're easily shareable," Ouimet says. "So I could take my specs and hand them to someone else and they can easily re-pair." Right now, that's all Spectacles can do, because without a screen or interface, what else could they do?
Imagine the next version of Spectacles, or maybe the one after that, which could work more like AR glasses, showing filters and lenses over top of your shot. You'd walk through the world, scanning codes just by glancing at them. You'd never stop discovering new creative tools, learning new information, and making new friends. Maybe someday the glasses don't even need codes, because they can just point at an object and recognize it. That day's a long way off. But codes achieve nearly the same thing, and do it now—augmented reality, a bunch of dots at a time."
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