Iris Biometrics

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Blania: Iris biometrics will normalize across consumer devices with AR/VR adoption
“So actually, I think one point on Iris that I think people don't appreciate enough, and that's a bet we took back then, but it was essentially that Iris will turn out to be super normal as a modality, just because I think we will all wear AR and VR systems tha…”
Alex Blania Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 11:16 How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
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Blania: Iris biometrics contain enough entropy for global uniqueness checks
“And so then you end up with you know, something like iris, which is the muscle of your eye that actually has enough entropy.”
Alex Blania Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 8:15 How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z

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