While not ready for commercial release, the team behind the Mt. Social augmented reality app has truly done something special. Their app uses facial and text recognition to pick faces out of a yearbook and display relevant information around them. This seems to be an excellent use of this technology and we hope to see it in the App Store some time soon.
via scattertree.com
We were given a quick demo of this awesome app called Mt. Social. It apparently uses a combination of facial and text recognition technology to identify people in yearbooks. You simply use your iPhone’s camera and the app displays an augmented reality image of 3-D tags or walls above certain people. The blue bits show personal info such as the number of kids, their profession (with dollar signs representing salary), their relationship status, and where they’re living. There is also a Facebook logo that, when clicked, takes you to their public Facebook page. We’ve been told that this demo is purely a test – the people are real but the data behind the app is fictional
