ShotCode

ShotCode is a circular barcode created by High Energy Magic of Cambridge University.

ShotCodes are designed to be read with a regular camera (including those found on mobile phones and webcams) without the need to purchase other specialised hardware.

This needs to link to a server that holds information regarding a mapped URL which the reading device can connect to in order to download said data.

ShotCode was created in 1999 at the University of Cambridge when researching a low cost vision based method to track locations and developed TRIPCode as a result.

It ‘reads’ the camera’s picture of a ShotCode in real time and prompts the browsers to navigate to a particular site.

Sample ShotCode linking to this article.
Sample ShotCode linking to this article.