A developer has developed an application for Google Glass that allows the user through the glasses faces can be recognizable. The software will probably not be using the official lwa le roads to be offered in connection with Googles privacy policy.
The app was developed by the 24-year-old Stephen Balaban, and will be demonstrated at the Chaos Communications Congress later this month in Hamburg is held, reports Forbes. With the gezichtsherkenningsapplicatie, which FaceRec is called, a user can take pictures in a database are stored together with location information.
When the database is filled with photographic material, it is possible to take pictures with each other to compare. By default, every ten seconds a picture is taken, then the data is stored in the database. For example, a photograph of a person be made, and the name of the person is linked to similar photos to search in the database. However, users have to the database first to fill and manual names to link to the photos. This is the app currently limited usefulness. In the longer term, the app, however, is more user-friendly.
According to the author, the application still has some drawbacks. So it is not possible to the app via the conventional way to install: Google gezichtsherkenningsapplicaties not because of concerns about privacy. FaceRec thereby via sideloading installed. In addition, the software is still not in real-time faces to compare to a name to attach to. Also runs the battery of the Glass glasses soon empty, if the application is turned on.