Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency/human identity network/RBI project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is now known as World. Along with the name change, World introduced a updated version of your eyeball scanning Orb Device that is designed to solve a problem that does not currently exist: authenticating that someone is human “in the age of ai.”
People registered in the system get a global ID that they can use to “securely and anonymously” prove their humanity online, as well as a portion of their associated WLD cryptocurrency token.
The new Orb is made with 30 percent fewer parts than its predecessor, which is supposed to make it easier and cheaper to build, and it's equipped with Nvidia's Jetson ai and robotics platform, for some reason. . Rich Heley, director of devices at Tools for Humanity, the foundation behind the World project, said during an event on Thursday that the simplified design should help achieve the goal of making the Orb widely available.
“To provide access to all humans, we need more Orbs. Many more orbs. “Probably on the order of a thousand times more orbs than we have today,” Heley said. “Not just more orbs but more orbs in more places.” In addition to increasing Orb production, World will even allow people buy or rent your own eyeball scanning sphere so they can “start checking out unique humans” in their communities.
It's also launching a new service called “Orb on Demand” (yes, it's really called that) that will allow people to order Orbs “very much like a pizza you would have delivered to your apartment,” Heley said. The Orb will also come to more countries, including Costa Rica, Brazil, Indonesia, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and others.
The world says it has verified almost 7 million “unique humans” so far, despite privacy concerns about building a privately operated global database based on biometrics.
