The future of dating is augmented reality

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The rise of social networks and the soon-to-happen explosion of NFC-enabled mobile devices holds an enormous potential to change our preconceived notions on just about everything. Imagine the not-so-distant-future when each of us might opt-in to have an ID chip implanted inside our body to beam public information about ourselves to nearby devices. The above concept video, entitled “Go for it”, depicts what the future of dating might be like.

Forget for a second the obvious privacy implications and just enjoy this awesome three-day student project created by Antoine Boulinguez. The clip is also a nice reminder of the privacy implications related to a rumored Google service said to combine facial recognition and information we share online to pull stuff about anyone caught in your smartphone camera’s lens. Scary.