Sam Altman’s World Coin has “coin” in its name, so new business cards will need to be printed. The OpenAI CEO startup is transitioning from a focus on cryptocurrencies to identification technology, and has just announced a new version of its signature gadget.
A new company called (wait for it) World is focusing on eye-scanning technology for identity verification, which could be useful in a world where deepfake videos emerge on the internet, Bloomberg reports.
Co-founder and CEO Alex Blania introduced the world’s newest device called Orb, a biometric eye scanner used to verify a person’s identity through an ID service called Deep Face.
The latest model of Orb, which uses NVIDIA’s Jetson chipset, will be available to customers on an as-needed basis. Chief device officer Rich Healy said at the San Francisco event that access to the orb will be provided on-demand, the same way people order pizza. “These advances will enable us to provide new ways to provide evidence of human authentication for World ID in more locations around the world,” the company said in a statement.
Approximately 7 million people have been scanned by World Orbs to date, according to the company’s website. Everyone who attended the San Francisco launch event received a free orb for their human identification needs.
