iPhones blocked from recording at concerts
Apple is planning on having iPhones blocked from recording and taking pictures at concerts. The widely revered company has been granted the patent that could successfully have your iPhones blocked from recording at concerts.
This has premium bummer potential for anyone that has spent a month’s rent on a concert ticket. Part of the ‘been there’ perk when going to concerts is getting to post Instagram and Snapchat video evidence. It’s poetic really, technology designed to impede other technology.
Glowing screens at gigs have become the modern day lighters up equivalent and Apple is trying to change that.
iPhones blocked from recording at concerts will be made possible by infrared transmitters in a venue. These would send data that disables your camera as soon as you hold it up to take a photo or film a video.
Most cameras are only capable of receiving visible light. However, this new patent by Apple would allow a camera with extra circuitry to receive data through the invisible infrared part of the spectrum.
And as Factmag puts it… “It could also be used to block photography in sensitive locations and stop the illegal filming of movies in cinemas.”
Another potential use for the technology is in museums. You would be able to hold up your iPhone in front of an exhibit and receive information via infrared that would appear on your screen – like augmented reality.
At this point it isn’t certain whether or not Apple will be building this feature into iPhones yet. But, for all those stars who are longing for the pre-smart phone filming performance era, this might sound perfect.
There are also those artists who actively involve their audiences to film with their smart phones. By doing so they embrace the progression of modern day life and how that relates to their performances.
It seems that Android users need not fret; this one is all Apple for now.
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