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1247 points mangoman | 1 comments | 05 Dec 16 14:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.671s | source

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Merad ◴[05 Dec 16 15:43 UTC] No.13106089[source]▶

I hate it when companies offer a "how this works" section that doesn't actually tell you a damned thing about how it works.

* How does my Amazon account get associated with the items I take?

* How are items detected when leaving the store? If my friend and I walk out side by side, how does it know (if it does) which items are mine and which are hers?

* What happens when someone picks up an item and leaves without first doing whatever check-in/registration/setup is necessary?

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homerguy69 ◴[05 Dec 16 16:15 UTC] No.13106413[source]▶

>>13106089 #

Its probably too creepy in terms of privacy to detail how it works which in turn will give themselves PR. I can only assume it uses arrays of cameras and sensors with deep learning. Glorious amounts of tracking data.

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1. zenware ◴[05 Dec 16 18:36 UTC] No.13107942[source]▶

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My current best guess is, basically what you've suggested. The Amazon Go page says "Computer Vision" which means "Cameras, Cameras Everywhere!". It also says "Sensor Fusion," I bet that means at the very least "Wifi and Bluetooth," with which they'll use to place your location on a virtual map of the store. That location could then be compared with the computer vision object tracking location to "double check" that you really are at that location. And so on.

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