Blippar underlines visual search ambitions with facial recognition feature

Blippar, the augmented reality app that helps brands and publishers interact with everyday objects through their smart devices has revealed a new scanable objects – faces.
The company, which is looking to position itself as the frontrunner in the newly emerging realm of visual search, has added facial recognition to its feature set.
Dubbed ‘Augmented Reality Face Profiles’, users can scan faces, from a person’s head or an imagine on TV or in a magazine, and upon recogniti