I am wanting to know what over people think about replacing a the UPC codes with QR codes.
I’ve been playing with QR codes for a little while; I can see some good point and bad ones. First of which depending on the light a QR code might take longer to scan, but with a UPC and a scanner; it scans it quickly.
But that can be fixed with a webcam lit up with leds.
Still I must wonder if QR codes will ever go past, as just a marketing tool and be interrelated into buying and selling.
If you don’t know what a QR code is, its a funny looking image that encodes information, a lot of details can be included in a QR code like: name, address, phone, email, description, price, dom (date of manufacture), expiry, URL, etc… Like RFID but it needs to be seen. Anybody with a mobile/PC, a camera and the right software can view the information that has been encoded into that QR code.