Brazil: bar requirements on pathways give vacationer info

Associated Press/Silvia Izquierdo - A two-dimensional bar value, or QR value, as they're known, created from grayscale rocks includes a street near the seaside in Rio de Janeiro, South america, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2013. The QR requirements are being placed at vacationer areas which can be examined with a cellular phone for details about the website.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro is combining technological innovation with custom to offer guests details about the city by embedding bar requirements into the grayscale variety pathways that are a icon of the city.

The first two-dimensional bar requirements, or QR requirements, as they're known, were set up Saturday at Arpoador, a large boulder that increases at the end of Ipanema seaside. The picture was designed into the street with the same grayscale rocks that beautify pathways around city with mosaics of surf, seafood and subjective pictures.

The release drawn viewers, who downloadable an program to their mobile phones or pills and captured the icon. The app study the value and they were then taken to a website that provided them details in Colonial, Language or British, and a map of the place.

They discovered, for example, that Arpoador gets big surf, creating it a hot identify for browsing and providing the 500-meter seaside close by the name of "Praia do Diabo," or Devil's Beach. They could also discover out that the stone is known as Arpoador because fishers once harpooned dolphins off the coast.

The city programs to set up 30 of these QR requirements at seashores, views, and ancient websites, so Rio's roughly 2 thousand international guests can understand about the city as they stroll around.

"If you add the variety of Brazil guests, this device has an excellent prospective to be useful," said Marcos Correa Bento, go of the town's efficiency and community performs.

Raul Oliveira Neto, a 24-year-old guest from the Southeast Brazil city of Porto Alegre, was one of the first to use the icon and believed the assistance fit well with the way individuals stay now.

"We use so much technological innovation to complete details, this is practical," he said, observing he would seen QR requirements on vacationer websites in People from france, where they were first used for this objective. "It's the way we do factors these days."

Locals — used to providing guests guidelines — also accepted the unique.

"Look, there's a little map; it even reveals you where we are," said Paul Fortunato, 25, as he drawn up details.

"Rio doesn't always have details for those who don't know the city," he said. "It's something the city needs, that it's been missing."