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by fiatjaf 2113 days ago
I'm still waiting for someone to make an app that encodes and decodes large data into multiple QR codes that are displayed in a moving sequence.

That would be the best way to transfer files in physical locations.

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Apple has something like this for their new iOS device setup. I don’t think it’s to encode larger amounts of data, but for security they have this circle that constantly changes shape (see around 0:50 in this video for a demo: https://youtu.be/iE03ypWD5xs). I don’t know for sure how it works, but my first thought was a constantly changing QR-like code.
Someone asked a very similar question on the apple stack exchange[1]. Apple also filed (at least) two patents on the technology[2][3].

[1]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/301563/what-is-the...

[2]: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

[3]: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

This would look similar to images produced by the Danmere Backer, a device which let you back up your files to a VHS tape.