Comment on Amazon made a new version of its cashierless tech that doesn’t need cameras
Noumena@kbin.social 1 year agoYea, that does sound like breaking problem. I have no clue how to begin solving that one.
I feel like there was an idea, not in this article, where people would scan items as they add them to their cart and then this walkout process was really just a redundant verification of walking out with the purchase. Still, that does sound like a lot of error prone noise.
geosoco@kbin.social 1 year ago
I don't know what's been tried in a real retail market, but I remember Walmart or perhaps just designers trying all sorts of ideas from carts that scanned them to people using their phones. It starts to get really complicated when people want to remove things or you have multiple people putting stuff in carts (eg. children sneaking items in)
I'm sure it's solvable, it's just a question of whether it's worth the cost for shoppers and the stores.