Conference Badges: Early Augmented Reality

[snowmit]

When I was working on the idea of the pocket-device model of augmented reality versus the lanyard model, I realized something about conference badges that didn’t really fit into the piece.

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[theyellowline]

Also, people use them as a human bar code. You can scan them to see who has entered the trade show or even who has stopped by your booth.

[snowmit]

Please post that on Quiet Babylon!

[thisisfurious]

and of course, cons like DefCon take the personalizeable/reactive badge to a whole other level. often of course, given the people who are modifying these badges are doing so in order to obscure their identities rather than broadcast them (i'm thinking particularly of the guy who fixed his to defeat facial-recognition software).

[snowmit]

Oh god all you smart people posting HERE when you could be posting there! I despair.

[snowmit]

That's really interesting!