I went to Gadget Show this year. All I had to do was have a copy of the barcode on my smart phone (which they emailed me) and they scanned it from my phone.
Nice and simple
Problem is though is there are a lot of people who can't afford smart phones.
While that may be true, all you need is a phone that can handle pictures and you can just transfer a picture of the barcode over.
While not everyone I know has a smart phone, I don't know anyone who has a phone that can't have pictures sent to them.
With this tech they should do what the airport does with checking online and biometric passports.
One cue is a mile long, and one cue has no-one in it and everyone that goes to it just gets whisked through. If that doesn't encourage people to use it - nothing will.
[QUOTE=garry;38813676]With this tech they should do what the airport does with checking online and biometric passports.
One cue is a mile long, and one cue has no-one in it and everyone that goes to it just gets whisked through. If that doesn't encourage people to use it - nothing will.[/QUOTE]
Queue not a cue.
I don't see why concert venues don't just have some kind of wristband or like a watch or something where you'd just plug it into a USB port, book your tickets and the information's stored on it.
Wow gary, lrn 2 spel
[QUOTE=Moby-;38813527]Problem is though is there are a lot of people who can't afford smart phones.[/QUOTE]
I go to concerts occasionally and I only have a house phone.
It does not take pictures, or have a screen for that matter.
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In fact it sorta stops working if you go too far from the house.
I'm old fashioned like-to-keep-the-ticket collecting guy, as long as that option still was there I'm not opposed to this at all.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;38813935]I go to concerts occasionally and I only have a house phone.
It does not take pictures, or have a screen for that matter.
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In fact it sorta stops working if you go too far from the house.[/QUOTE]
I know how that is. I didn't get a smartphone, or any cellular phone, until last year. being in high school without a phone was weird
This is yet another thing NFC could feasibly do (just have someone go round with a machine that you tapped your phone against or something) but can't because it's not nearly in wide enough use. The only remotely feasible paperless transaction would be having a barcode on your phone which someone scans - there;s no way to do this without employing people to check tickets (I haven't seen turnstiles in one venue that isn't fucking huge)
At first I was on board. Less paper, less bullshit, easier and quicker to get in. But then I got to this.
[quote]Theoretically the noise trigger could then make the smartphone bring up all kinds of content from merchandising or ticket purchase options or play video.[/quote]
fuck off with this shit. If I wanted to watch a video [i]I wouldn't have gone to the fucking concert in the first place,[/i] and if I wanted the cheap merch I would have already bought it. Fucking hell advertisers are annoying, they're even managing to invade technology that doesn't even bloody exist yet.
Pretty sure within ten minutes someone will release an ad blocker app that disables that functionality, though.
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