Blippar debuts AR face profiles with bubble halos

Cue the Beyonce. Augmented reality (AR) and computer vision startup Blippar has launched AR face profiles it calls Halos – and which it claims “[bring] facial recognition technology into the mainstream”.
The new in-app feature allows users to customize AR face profiles with interactive bubbles surrounding their heads featuring content like mood, aura, celebrity lookalikes, photos, Spotify songs, tweets and YouTube videos.
In a blog post, Blippar says Halos give users