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Re:What coronavirus will do to our offices and homes by ahelwer on Monday August 24, 2020 @12:07AM (#24257450)
I've certainly made the jump to a fully-thought-out home office[0], but masks are conspicuously absent from this article - facial recognition? Good luck when I continue wearing my nice face covering in public long after this specific virus is under control.

Things like the virus-killing HVAC system are interesting. Makes you consider our current buildings from a future perspective, like in what ways they'll think we're hilariously backwards, hygiene-wise.

[0] https://ahelwer.ca/post/2020-08-09-home-ergonomics/

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Re:What coronavirus will do to our offices and homes by jjeaff on Monday August 24, 2020 @12:37AM (#24257541)
There are already quite a few biometric detection options in production out there that can ID you just fine with a mask on. Just your eyes and forehead are probably enough for a lot of facial recognition and then there is gait detection that can identify you by how you walk or even heart beat rythmn detection that I believe requires a laser sensor of some type.
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