SXSW Invaded By QR Codes…03.18.10

18 03 2010

Excerpted from Fast Company:

Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference this week, you see QR codes. The square “quick response” codes turn URLs, vCards, or any kind of text into a jumble of pixels that you can scan onto your smartphone instantaneously, no typing required. At SXSW, QR codes appeared on flyers, postcards, business cards, t-shirts, stickers, and swag. Organizers of the Austin gathering for film, music, and Web geeks even included a QR code on every registrant’s badge to cut down on paper waste and manual data entry…”

QR Codes Combined with Augmented Reality:

“…A building in Japan created a giant QR code on their building which people captured and enabled them to see real-time twitter feeds from the people inside the building…”

Chevy Adding QR Codes to Cars:

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