The Orbs will now have “five times the performance” of previous devices.
World reported the launch of its mainnet, World Chain, open to the public.
At an event held in the city of San Francisco, California, United States, on October 17, 2024, Worldcoin, which has now changed its name to World, announced the new technology that it will implement in its Orb device to scan irises. of the people.
He also communicated the official launch of its mainnet (main network), World Chain, which was in the testing phase, as reported by CriptoNoticias.
The event could be viewed on YouTube, in which co-founders Sam Altman and Alex Blania explained, among other things, the improvements they made to devices designed to capture people’s biometric data.
Among them, World reported that the Orbs were improved in their software. New and legacy devices now include personal custody integrations and face auth (face authentication). These two tools they point to promote privacy and control that users have about their personal data.
The integration of personal escrow technology provides users with more direct control over their biometric data. Instead of World storing an unencrypted copy of the iris data, these are encrypted with a user’s private key before being sent to your phone.
For its part, the characteristic face auth adds a second authentication factor to the identity verification process. In addition to iris scanning, users will now need to confirm their identity through facial recognition. This makes it much more difficult for someone falsify the identity of another person.
According to World, they carry out a no-registration policy. Images captured by the Orb are not stored nor are they shared. Once the verification process is complete, all images are sent to the user’s phone and then permanently deleted from the device.
Although the company claims not to collect sensitive data, from the beginning this project caused great controversy by capturing highly personal biometric information.
So much so that, at the beginning of September 2024, a case was initiated in Mexico against a possible data breach personal by this company, as reported by CriptoNoticias.
The fact that facial features are now included in this process as two-factor authentication could deepen the community’s doubts, despite the clarification that they now follow a no-logging policy for certain data. They also did not specify whether or not these new facial scans for 2FA authentication will be registered in a database or in the cloud. In any case, from World enunciate that its “business model does not involve exploiting the user’s personal data to obtain profits.”
What other improvements did World have in its new Orb?
As announced by the company, the new Orb, a high-resolution camera, will have an artificial intelligence (AI) performance of almost five times higher to the previous device.
The objective of the Orb is to realize human identity verifications by scanning people’s irises (colored part of the eyes). It is a physical device developed by the company World, formerly Worldcoin. It has a sphere-shaped design and has a high-resolution camera and sensors.
The main purpose of World is create a universal digital identity that allows people to demonstrate their humanity anonymously online. This could be useful to access services with that identification, such as authenticated private communities, or to combat the creation of false identities, among others.
The improvement in the performance of orb is given by the NVIDIA Jetson chipset equipment “more advanced,” which will allow humanity checks to be faster and more seamless, according to the company.
NVIDIA Jetson is an embedded computing platform that is specifically designed to run AI applications on small, low-power devices, such as World Network’s Orb.
This platform includes modules and kits of technological development that allow the creation of AI products in various sectors such as robotics, computer vision, drones, etc.
Additionally, the new Orb is equipped with improved infrared and visible light cameras to deliver superior low-light performance, better fraud detection, and improved image security.
It includes 5G connectivity, which would provide reduced latency and greater data transmission capacity, while the new removable SD card makes it easy to extract and analyze device logs.
World also proposes three new forms of identity verification
Among other announcements, World announced new forms of verification in the coming months for users to join its network.
The company will launch proof of humanity verification centers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Mexico City, Mexico. You will also have Self-Service Orbs in different locations around the worldso that users can verify their identity without the need for a company operator.
In addition, it partnered with the delivery application Rappi to offer the “on-demand verification” option, allowing those who work in this app bring the Orb to users directly.
Ultimately, they presented the figure of “Community Operators”. By selling its Orb, World will allow anyone to purchase this device to use in their community. The devices would begin to arrive in 2025.
