Google Glass will find your friends by their clothes

Google’s AR project, Google Glass, will identify your friends by scanning what they are wearing.

The Google Glass feature is called Insight, which will be able to pick out individuals within a crowd, essentially allowing users to find specific people in large groups.

Insight creates a “fashion fingerprint” of someone’s outfit, and does this through creating a spatiogram – a file that captures the spatial distribution of colours, textures, and patterns.

Insight is the brainchild of Srihari Nelakuditi at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, who teamed up with Romit Roy Choudhury and his colleagues at Duke University in North Carolina.

In early tests, participants were able to pick out their friend out of a crowd 93 percent of the time, even when they had their back to the person wearing the headset.