Tuesday 8 March 2011

What is a QR Code And What doe's it do?

A Qr code looks like this:





This Qr code is a specific matrix bar-code which is only readable by qr bar-code reader's, and there are many mobile phone application's for this now for example the i phone has one. And we will be using the mobile phone reader for our game.

The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be text, URL link's or other data.
The Qr code was created by Toyota for it's car manufacture and now it is one of the most popular type's of two dimensional bar-codes.
Qr is the abbreviation for Quick Response, as the code allows its content's to be decoded at high speed.
This is a description of how the Qr code works:

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