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The Dutch website ‘Beste Product’ (a website that reviews products to help consumers pick the best ones), has published a funny video. While reviewing the new Samsung Galaxy phone, they showcase what you can do with Layar. One of the applications on Layar is spotting the homes of famous Dutch people. And that is what they do. They go on the streets of Amsterdam and find homes of famous people. Apparently they stumble upon the house of Brad Pitt and guess what, Brad Pitt is home ;-). Of course it is not Brad, but a look-a-like. And Brad, as far as I know, is not Dutch. But anyway. The video is in Dutch, scroll to 2:40 for the excitement :-)
That’s maybe fun, but it poses a huge ethical question of course. Can we do that? And do we want this to happen? But before we start to blame AR for this, Layar is just overlaying reality with a database of addresses of famous people. The question really is, who is offering such databases? And can they do that?
