I was wrong about QR codes

Our latest video is all about how QR codes took over the world

And as a bonus for our Patreon supporters, here's a timelapse of me making a QR code out of a Go Board

If you enjoyed this video and would like to know how to make a QR code yourself, there's a step by step guide over on our Patreon

But most QR-Codes put you to following Link…

Hey @veritasium, Just completed watching the video You could have showed the creator what generative AI has done to QR codes ! I would love to see his reaction seeing these Thread 👇

Only you, @veritasium, can make a video about QR codes fascinating. Love the video.

I feel like QR codes are a "stopgap" solution to the real problem of "method to upload some aspect of the real world into your smartphone". I feel like the future is with AI tools like Google Lens, which makes links printed on paper, clickable.

Definitely! @veritasium We got what you meant by that 😉 After all, there's a lot of blasphemy about QR codes, right? What a way to cover it so precisely.

this is so cool, I can’t wait to watch the whole video on this ✨🏆

Barcodes, basically..