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Stella Rosa Generated 16,589 QR Scans Across 58 Codes in 30 Days
“We did 58 QR codes, and we're at we're at in the last, we're at 16,589.”
Digital Seat waited until 2018 for native OS QR scanning before launching
“We waited until 2018 when QR code scanning became natively unlocked on iOS devices and on Android. And that's when we said, hey, okay, we need to go and see what we can do in this market.”
Chan: Most Americans do not know how to scan QR codes
“If you ask the average American how to even scan a QR code, even now, they probably have no idea.”
Chan: WeChat drove Chinese QR adoption by making it primary for friends
“In China, what really helped it take off is WeChat made it front and center, a primary way of adding a friend. So as opposed to having to scan for a particular username, because a username is not even required when you set up a WeChat account or knowing their …”
Xu: QR codes gained Chinese adoption because Roman URLs are counterintuitive
“Yeah, so one of my hypotheses was that the internet's infrastructure is in English. URLs are in using Roman characters that don't really correspond to Chinese, and so a lot of even like large Chinese companies will have URLs that basically look like fxyjjj.com…”
Chan: QR code scanning in apps is far more common in China than US
“Well, I think one area of app design that's very common in China, but not as seen in the States, is the usage of QR codes and the usage of the scanning feature in any app. And WeChat is actually it's heavily reliant on the scanning feature. So, for example, yo…”
Deep learning systems outperform humans at classifying QR codes
“If I show you QR codes and ask you to classify QR codes, humans will completely fail, whereas deep learning systems will succeed.”
Vicarious AI's models cannot classify QR codes due to built-in domain assumptions
“Our systems are less general in the sense that our system actually will not be able to solve QR codes.”
Connie Chan: Mobile payments in China rely on QR codes over NFC
“Did you know that all that mobile payment, all of that's happening with the camera. It's not happening with NFC. It's not happening with a smart chip. They're using their camera to scan a QR code to complete a payment.”
Chan: Hundreds of Chinese Restaurants Use Table QR Codes for Ordering
“There are now hundreds of restaurants in China that have QR codes pasted to the table.”
Chan: Mobile Payments and QR Codes Underpin China's Mobile Ecosystem
“Now, when you think about this online and offline world, there are actually two components that are the plumbing to make the seamless mobile society work, and those two things are payments and QR codes, and they're actually very intertwined in China.”