The Facebook camera that can recognise you every time you walk into a shop
- Could be used by shops to offer discounts to customers
- System already being trialled in Nashville shops and bars
- Users must sign up to take part and 'teach' system what they look like
By MARK PRIGG
Shoppers could soon be automatically recognised when they walk into a shop using a controversial new camera.
Called Facedeals, the camera uses photos uploaded to Facebook to recognise people as they walk in.
Shoppers who agree to use the system, which has not been developed with Facebook, will be offered special deals.
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Facedeals - a new camera that can recognise shoppers from their Facebook pictures as they enter a shop, and then offer them discounts
A promotional video created to promote the concept shows drinkers entering a bar, and then being offerend cheap drinks as they are recognised.
'Facebook check-ins are a powerful mechanism for businesses to deliver discounts to loyal customers, yet few businesses—and fewer customers—have realized it,' said Nashville-based advertising agency Redpepper.
They are already trialling the scheme in firms close to their office.
'A search for businesses with active deals in our area turned up a measly six offers.
'The odds we’ll ever be at one of those six spots are low (a strip club and photography studio among them), and the incentives for a check-in are not nearly enticing enough for us to take the time.
'So we set out to evolve the check-in and sweeten the deal, making both irresistible.
'We call it Facedeals.'
The software uses a complex algorithm to find the correct person from their Facebook pictures
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2187801/Were-watchin...
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Permalink Reply by raymond _______ on
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Anyone who spends more than one hour per day on f--kbook is braindead.
Its about as useful as breaking your leg.
Its about as useful as all the plastic products that are no addition.
What a waste of time.Read a book,go for a walk,Check on old people in your area or expand your mind into hundreds of other worthwhile things.
This crap is rewiring youngsters brains,and not for the better.Younger people cant even spell properly anymore.
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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on
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an hour???...lol
dont even participate in that data mining site :)
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Your 100% right hollywood.I only meant that comment for people who are using it,you cant stop youngsters using this crap.I personally dont use it as it is a waste of valuable time.Thanks for the comment anyway,positive or negative.
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positive my brother, just positive ;)
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jew know it kiddo ;)
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