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Augmented reality and coronavirus

Spot checks of people at major interfaces such as transportation centers is a critically important aspect of measuring the spread, or decline in the pandemic. Augmented reality is a perfect application for making observations. The combination of fast, thermal measurements, facial recognition, and/or tagging, and data-basing is needed if socially challenging aspect of getting it under control. Several airports outside ...

Jon Peddie

Spot checks of people at major interfaces such as transportation centers is a critically important aspect of measuring the spread, or decline in the pandemic. Augmented reality is a perfect application for making observations. The combination of fast, thermal measurements, facial recognition, and/or tagging, and data-basing is needed if socially challenging aspect of getting it under control. Several airports outside of the US have fixed thermal cameras, some installed during the SARS outbreak. Recently, Kuang-Chi Technology, a company in Shenzhen, introduced an AR helmet with an IR camera.  Such a device has a mobility aspect to it that allows the
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