QR Code Analysis

I have to make recurrent visits from exactly where I’m now dwelling in Northern Thailand to Bangkok. The bus is the greatest possibility for me. Regrettably, it truly is a 10 hour one particular-way vacation. That suggests I have to preserve my self entertained. But with present day technology, it’s quick to do. For instance, the Oishi environmentally friendly tea juice box I was offered by the bus assistance contained a QR code.

On the box it was referred to as an “AR Technological innovation” Code. I took AR as becoming “Augmented Fact”. That is a little bit misleading but maybe which is what the firm that Oishi works by using refers to QR as. By the way, QR is brief for “Fast Response”.

I’ve known about QR codes but have under no circumstances truly appeared at them other then identifying them on numerous products. I experienced however to go as much as to actually choose a image of the code and see what information and facts it has. It’s just not too common back again in the States nonetheless and the solutions that had codes I wasn’t fascinated in. But I had heaps of cost-free time, so I made a decision to look at it out.

According to Wikipedia, QR Codes are extremely popular in Japan. QR codes had been invented in Japan back in 1994 where they are now the most well known sort of two dimensional codes. It also will make feeling that my environmentally friendly tea juice box experienced a QR label on it…Oishi is a Japanese firm.

QR codes are usually applied on advertisements and product or service packaging so people can snap a photograph with their cell cellular phone or internet cam and then use the World-wide-web to investigate solution details, promotions/savings and any quantity of other points that buyers appreciate so significantly. I determined to check out this out for myself so I downloaded “QR Reader” for my Iphone.

I snapped a photo with my Iphone digital camera and loaded QR Reader. The application enable you either take a photograph instantly from the app or to pick a saved photograph. I picked the picture of the QR label. After a couple of seconds, the application spit out the subsequent code: 8JZEPC

What does 8JZEPC signify? I was puzzled so I saved the information and resolved to look into even further when I experienced entry to substantial-pace Net.

When I obtained property I went to the AR Code area of the Oishi web page. Here is what the website states:

“Oishi Inexperienced Tea invite you to a new practical experience in gaming. The first combining the ideal technological know-how in 2010 AR Technological innovation and Cafe games on the web together. The to start with time you will engage in a cafe operator. From Inside Style and design Shop Management with interesting menu cooked from all in excess of the entire world. Applying AR Technological know-how as aspect of the match. Code box beside Oishi Green Tea UHT Transmission by way of World-wide-web Digicam Internet internet site Oishi Green Tea. North imaginative pleasurable creating a activity comprehensive cafe of the most impressive line of AR.”

Gotta like the translation of this. From what I acquire, the code I obtained is element of a video game. This is the formal connection to the QR match. You use this code in the on the web game/contest to even further development and in the end get prizes. Fairly neat.

So it turns out that my Iphone examine the QR correctly, it was just that instead of expecting a web site to browse a lot more facts about Oishi Environmentally friendly Tea, it was a code made use of as section of an on the internet activity. Go determine! In any case, I have a excellent time investigating the technology and I hugely propose Oishi eco-friendly tea.