An Apple patent filing from 2011 that allows concert venue organizers or other media entities to stop an iPhone from recording an event via infrared signals has now been granted. These infrared beacons, which are not visible to the human eye, are capable of sending a signal to command an iPhone to not record what its camera is currently viewing.
However, this technology can also be used for other applications as well, including an augmented reality esque camera view. The technology would work sort of like the way Snapchat filters currently working, modifying the screen in real time as the user moves around.
This means if you’re at a museum, you could theoretically whip out your phone, switch on the camera and see information about a painting in real time. The beacon would supposedly be placed next to the painting and then work via the equivalent of a non-visible, automatic QR code reader.
As Gizmodo points out, this sort of technology is not particularly new. Apple launched iBeacon in 2013, which allows a similar sort of data transfer as the newly granted patent.
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