China's Alibaba Has a New Payment System That Lets Virtual Reality Shoppers Pay By Nodding (reuters.com) 43
If providing your credit card details (or a few clicks) is too much a hassle for you, China's Alibaba may have a solution. The company today demonstrated a payment service called VR Pay, that allows virtual reality shoppers to pay for things just by nodding their heads. Reuters reports: VR Pay, the new payment system, is part of Alibaba's efforts to capitalize on the latest technology in online shopping. In 2015, for example, it introduced a facial recognition technology for Alipay mobile payments service advertised as "pay with a selfie." The VR payment technology means people using virtual reality goggles to browse virtual reality shopping malls will be able pay for purchases without taking off the goggles. They can just nod or look instead. Lin Feng, who is in charge of Ant Financial's incubator F Lab that has been developing the payment service over the past few months, told Reuters: "It is very boring to have to take off your goggles for payment. With this, you will never need to take out your phone."
Warning (Score:1)
People with Parkison's deasease, beware.
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Bobbleheads beware!
Probably should stay home if you have a cold (Score:2)
Never write when you can speak, never speak (Score:2)
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when you can nod, never nod when you can wink...who knows who said it first. Huey Long?
Say no more, say no more!
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!
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> Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink.
It was actually Martin Lomasney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
It was more recently made famous by Eliot Spitzer, one-time New York state attorney general and governor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] He updated it into the modern era as...
> Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
Now that's really stupid.. (Score:3)
Yes, lets make transaction authorization as ambiguous as possible. I wouldn't want any of my financial streams associated with any of this.
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I wouldn't want any of my financial streams associated with any of this.
Don't worry. Slashdot geezers are not the target market.
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so it doesn't " allows virtual reality shoppers to pay for things just by nodding their heads." /. lawn
great article and tech now get off
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It seems to work well enough at auctions. The issue here is that human auctioneers can tell the difference between a bidding nod and a sneeze.
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Uhmmm... Pay by nodding??? (Score:3)
How's that supposed to work? Do you tap into the kinetic energy produced by nodding and generate some material amount of work that you can translate into capital, or what?
Or did they mean to say that you can *authorize* payments just by nodding?
Because that's not at all what the headline, summary, or even the article says.
Words matter. I don't know why people don't just say what they mean instead of making ambiguous statements that don't mean anything sensible.
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Do you pay by handing over cash, or do you authorize payment by handing over cash?
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The authorization on payment by nodding was given by you by signing up for the feature. What's the difference?
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too much work (Score:2)
Douglas Adams was prophetic! (Score:3)
H2G2 (Score:4, Insightful)
"Do not," called out Slartibartfast floating past again, and fiddling furiously with the thing that he had stuck into the wall of the Room of Informational Illusions and which was in fact still stuck there, "agree to buy anything at this point."
Aaaachoooo! (Score:2)
"Thank you for purchasing our pure gold Rolls Royce offering at the bargain price of 3500 000 Euros."
Who had this stupid idea?
New way to make money (Score:2)
Make your youtube video as boring as possible.
Any yoyo factories for sale? (Score:2)
Where can I buy a Chinese yoyo factory? I'm gonna be rich!
Terrific development (Score:1)
Weekend at .... (Score:2)
Will Amazon file a "one-nod patent"? (Score:2)
Someone has to do it.
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Some cultures shake their heads to mean yes. Not the Chinks I guess, so maybe Pakis.
This app is rascist and I hope it gets sued into a blivion..
You should probably get somebody to explain the inadvertent irony in your choice of words to you.
Hitchkikers got there first: (Score:2)
Documentary voice - Now let us all bow our heads in payment...
Slartibartfast - Just don't nod...
https://books.google.co.uk/boo... [google.co.uk]
snake
Douglas Adams got there first (Score:2)
In one of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books, viewers of a Senso-o-Tape reel are instructed to bow their heads in payment. Fortunately, Slartibartfast warns them in time not to do so.