Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone app after the launch of Seadragon Mobile last month: Microsoft Tag. Just point the device’s camera to a custom tag and instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, and more.
Long Zheng of IStartedSomething wrote:
Microsoft Tag is based on a whole new technology called High Capacity Color Barcodes (HCCBs), which was invented in-house by Microsoft Research. The difference is not using square pixels, but triangle shapes and colors to store data.
Microsoft Tag is the third solution besides the existing technologies (QR Code and Data Matrix) we had today.
You can download the application for your iPhone via iTunes. This application also compatible with Windows Mobile, J2ME, Blackberry or Symbian S60 phone and can be obtained at http://gettag.mobi. (For the moment this is a free service, Zheng added).
Will it take off soon? Do you want to get it for your iPhone? Tell us what you think.
[via IStartedSomething]
I tried a similar app before and the problem was that if I got close enough to get a decent sized image, it was too blurry, and when I backed away from the stamp/tag, it was too small. Maybe it’s my 1G camera starting to go…?
Wow, this works great even with the blurry macro picture. I doubt my iPhone would be able to decode a datamatrix code, but this works almost instantly.
I expect the blogosphere (engadget, gizmodoe, slashdot, et al) will ignore this because it is a decade ahead of anything the fosstard community has accomplished.
wtg Microsoft!