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by rush-tea 4299 days ago
shazam for face recognition? Sometime when you see a movie, you can't make out who stars in it. take a quick picture and shazam it away to get the actor / actress name!
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Google play does this when watching certain movies and shows. Not sure if it's added manually or does intelligent recognition. However, it's certainly useful - so I could see generalizing that capability for other movies / plays??

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Granted, the movies and shows on Play have at least a context to do the pattern matching with - a cast list greatly reduces the possible matches.

Possibly better fit for TV. Although it's usually no problem, I can imagine that cinemas would get really anxious about people taking pictures of a moving they are watching