AR red envelopes were cracked. What else did Alipay say besides technology upgrade?

Alipay, which has failed several times in the social field, has finally shown signs of turning around with AR red envelopes.

On December 21, Alipay officially announced the gameplay of "AR real-scene red envelopes". AR real-scene red envelopes are based on the "LBS AR red envelope" method. When users send and grab red envelopes, they need to meet two conditions: geographic location and AR real-scene scanning. Simply put, users must run to the place where the sender hides the red envelope and scan the object where the red envelope is hidden in order to receive the AR red envelope.

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However, the good times did not last long. On December 24, Huxiu proposed two methods to crack Alipay AR real-scene red envelopes. One is to use PS, which has a popular base, and the other is to use deep learning methods.

Alipay responded quickly on Weibo, saying that it had upgraded the technology of AR red envelopes. The probability of directly scanning the clue picture to get a red envelope has been further reduced to one in a million, and the probability of grabbing a red envelope through "PS" software has also been greatly reduced.

The following is Alipay’s long response:

From this response, it can be seen that Alipay did not give a specific response on how the technology will be upgraded, but it is recommended that users can select the most accurate clue map and set the collection range to avoid having their red envelopes collected by strangers.

It is worth noting that on December 23, Tencent QQ's WeChat official account also announced that it would launch LBSA+R red envelopes in January 2017. Will QQ's AR red envelopes have corresponding technology to avoid being cracked? Leifeng.com will further contact image recognition experts to analyze this, so stay tuned.