The future of mobile payments
It seems that many companies in the field of IT and finance have swept the wave of fashion to develop fundamentally new methods of paying for goods and services.
Today, MasterCard is trying to surprise us: if their prototype reaches the stage of a commercial product, it will be possible to make purchases of goods and services lying on the couch, waving a hand in front of the TV screen. This is a prototype built on the basis of Xbox Kinect, which is one of the innovative mobile payment technologies disclosed by MasterCard at a meeting with journalists.
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While the central theme of the meeting was a joint Google Wallet project, MasterCard told the public about its view on the development of other mobile payment solutions in the future.
A prototype called QkR can shop from anywhere. The application reads QR codes from posters or from a TV screen, initiates a purchase and offers to pay for it. In a similar way, as well as Shazam, which determines the name of the music being played based on its passage, QkR can read conditional signals in television programs and offer to make corresponding purchases.
Other features of the program allow you to read the NFC-code, sewn, for example, in a table in a restaurant, to access the menu and place an order directly from your mobile phone.
The most impressive, and for some journalists scary, the possibility of the program is a prototype of a store on Xbox Kinect. Interacting with gestures with the store through the console, the user can place an order, get an invoice and pay it directly to the QkR app on a mobile device.
According to MasterCard, the company has no idea about the timing of the implementation of prototypes as a commercial product.
Today, MasterCard is trying to surprise us: if their prototype reaches the stage of a commercial product, it will be possible to make purchases of goods and services lying on the couch, waving a hand in front of the TV screen. This is a prototype built on the basis of Xbox Kinect, which is one of the innovative mobile payment technologies disclosed by MasterCard at a meeting with journalists.
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While the central theme of the meeting was a joint Google Wallet project, MasterCard told the public about its view on the development of other mobile payment solutions in the future.
A prototype called QkR can shop from anywhere. The application reads QR codes from posters or from a TV screen, initiates a purchase and offers to pay for it. In a similar way, as well as Shazam, which determines the name of the music being played based on its passage, QkR can read conditional signals in television programs and offer to make corresponding purchases.
Other features of the program allow you to read the NFC-code, sewn, for example, in a table in a restaurant, to access the menu and place an order directly from your mobile phone.
The most impressive, and for some journalists scary, the possibility of the program is a prototype of a store on Xbox Kinect. Interacting with gestures with the store through the console, the user can place an order, get an invoice and pay it directly to the QkR app on a mobile device.
According to MasterCard, the company has no idea about the timing of the implementation of prototypes as a commercial product.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/128810/
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