Chinese govt aims to curb crime with facial recognition glasses
Sylvia McKeown takes a look at two devices that are breaking ground when it comes to recognition technology
NOW: FACIAL RECOGNITION GLASSES
The Chinese government plans on being able to identify any face out of China's 1.3 billion citizens in three seconds.
For now though they have created essentially the police spy version of Google Glass 2.0 and are able to identify a face from their 10,000-strong criminal database within 100 milliseconds.
They have already arrested seven people and banned 26 from travel due to false documents.
Though Amnesty International and other human- rights groups are voicing doubts due to rights of privacy, it seems facial recognition has a lot more to play in our future than animojis.
FUTURE: PILOT TRANSLATING EARPIECES
Working along with Pilot speech translator app, these earbuds are able to interpret another conversational language in your ear in real time.
It works through a combination of speech recognition and machine translation to decode and interpret any language it hears, playing back to you instantly in the language of your choice.
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