Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

Dev.SN ♥ developers

Big Brother Mickey Mouse

posted by mattie_p on Sunday March 09 2014, @07:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-just-as-not-evil-as-google dept.

fx_68 writes:

Bloomberg Business Week reports that Disney is investing $1 billion (or milliard) in guest tracking. From the article:

Jason McInerney and his wife, Melissa, recently tapped their lunch orders onto a touchscreen at the entrance to the Be Our Guest restaurant at Florida's Walt Disney World Resort and were told to take any open seat. Moments later a food server appeared at their table with their croque-monsieur and carved turkey sandwiches. Asks McInerney, a once-a-year visitor to Disney theme parks: "How did they know where we were sitting?"

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Big Brother Mickey Mouse | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 1000 moderator points   | 28 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 1) by cmn32480 on Monday March 10 2014, @07:31AM

    by cmn32480 (443) on Monday March 10 2014, @07:31AM (#13826) Journal

    I 100% agree with what you are saying. As a "guest", you volunteer for the tracking.

    The creepy factor comes in when the customer/audience doesn't understand the tech behind it. I (and probably many others on this site) have a pretty good knowledge of how it works. Hell, I have the ability to set up a similar (though MUCH smaller scale) setup in my office for demo purposes. The tech aspect to this is pretty neat. and is a lot more common than most people realize.

  • (Score: 1) by Aiwendil on Monday March 10 2014, @11:42AM

    by Aiwendil (531) on Monday March 10 2014, @11:42AM (#14031)

    Care to throw me a keyword or five for "readers" or similar to implement such tracking? I'm actually looking into doing something like this for the next place I move to (mainly since my girlfriend and I have _very_ different preferences on aircondition, airtemperature and light, so I plan on automating the living daylight out the place) but due to not knowing the proper phrases to search for I find very little* (and I would prefer not to having to reinvent the wheel)

    * = other than setups that require contact, for my plans I require a distance for reading of at least 2ft)

    • (Score: 1) by cmn32480 on Monday March 10 2014, @02:24PM

      by cmn32480 (443) on Monday March 10 2014, @02:24PM (#14158) Journal

      Look at Motorola Solutions readers. LLRP is the language that they need to be programmed in. Alien Readers makes good gear too.