Re:IP Over QR Code
by Theodores on Saturday November 19, 2016 @10:22PM
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Let's call it QR-Video, theoretically the world's most useless protocol as you only need a link and one still frame will suffice. However there is something nice about QR codes and it would be cool to stream information in this big visual way between phones, e.g. a business card sized piece of information.
The problem I have with QR codes is that they do not just work. You need to download a QR code reading app, this functionality should be hard coded at a deeper level, a notification appearing for QR codes no matter what you are doing with the device.
Many of the apps for QR codes do things like sneaking in affiliate marketing codes, this can malform a URL and do some redirection along the way for monetization purposes unknown.
Maybe QR codes deserve the video mode to become a protocol like this of sorts to be there for innovators with uses to be invented. QR codes are here to stay, they are too useful. They need acknowledgement as a thing and for phones to do a lot better out the box at hzving QR code readers baked into the OS.
The problem I have with QR codes is that they do not just work. You need to download a QR code reading app, this functionality should be hard coded at a deeper level, a notification appearing for QR codes no matter what you are doing with the device.
Many of the apps for QR codes do things like sneaking in affiliate marketing codes, this can malform a URL and do some redirection along the way for monetization purposes unknown.
Maybe QR codes deserve the video mode to become a protocol like this of sorts to be there for innovators with uses to be invented. QR codes are here to stay, they are too useful. They need acknowledgement as a thing and for phones to do a lot better out the box at hzving QR code readers baked into the OS.