Sam Altman’s Worldcoin is going to need to print some new business cards as it drops a “coin” in its name. The OpenAI CEO’s startup is transitioning from cryptocurrency to focus more on identity technology, and it just launched a new version of its signature gadget.
A new company called (wait for it) World has announced that it will focus its eye-scanning technology on identity verification, which could be useful in the world of deeply fake videos circulating online.
Co-founder and CEO Alex Blania unveiled the world’s newest device, the Orb, a biometric eye scanner used to verify human identities through an identification service called Deep Face.
The latest model of the Orb, which uses NVIDIA’s Jetson chipset, will be available to customers on an as-needed basis. Chief Hardware Officer Rich Heley said at the San Francisco event that access to the Orb will be on-demand and delivered the way people order pizza. “These advances allow us to offer new ways to provide proof of human verification of World ID in more places around the world,” the company said in a statement.
according to approximately 7 million people have been scanned by World Orbs to date. Everyone who attended the San Francisco launch event received a free Orb for their human identification needs.
