Dutch startup Lividoprop The special QR code is increasing the size of the offline file transfer enabled by its app on mobile devices, which do not require two devices to connect each other.
Lividop technique It is unique that it uses the QR code that continuously proceed to encoding files that can later be decoded by scanning them with their app. The key to all this is a fully disconnected one-to-one transfer that does this happen in a Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or any other networking protocol. Two devices may occur between Antarctica or a long-term flight and still transfer files between each other.
The only warning so far is the size of those files. After killing a high level of 356kbps in 2024, Lividop is doubling up to 700kbps in 2025. Still not big in any way, but the company tells Petpixel It is currently testing for 2.6Mbps transfer that may be viable for users by the end of 2025 (or may not). This will put it very close to one phone from one phone to another and any ruins to move forward with any ruins compression.
Optics included
When I first saw technology in CES 2024 in Las Vegas, I immediately noted how unknown the whole thing was. It does not matter that an iPhone and Android phones were included, and unstable, the same would be the same about Windows and Mac computers. There is no Lividop app for Mac, although there is a workaround on a Mac for iPad. On Windows, there is a suit that is more target for commercial use, 10 euros per user, per year, per year. An SDK (Software Development Kit) is also available for 15 Euro monthly.
There are no two determination factors in developing this technique, there is no other, which is themselves optics and image sensors. Quality optics in cameras affect the transfer speed, the higher the quality of optics, the more they can capture the granular details in the QR code to enable rapid and more efficient data transfer.
“If you use specific cameras like a 600 mm lens camera body, you can go more than 230 meters,” Martian Entzolatos-Bergstein, says Senior Sales Director of Defense and Safety in Lividrops. “If you use more specific optics, yet from commercial, shelf, but more sewn for specific use, you can go up to 700 meters.”
He says that the company is experimenting with “specific telescopes” to verify how well it can work at a distance. If it works, there are also implications for national defense and military exercises or conflicts where various systems and platforms can share data from an air gap manner. This would mean that without intervention from the cloud and without the risk of jam, spuofing, or interception. It is also testing gray and blue tone, as well as infrared, to see how a variety of cameras and lens codes can be lifted at night.
“If you have a lower grade camera, you have to reduce the QR code level, such as a level 20, so it means that each frame has less data,” they say. “Smartphone cameras are better suited for transfer of short distance at about 13 meters or less. Usually broader aperts associated with phone cameras make them best suited for small-ranges, low-motion transfer, while high-ended cameras with interchangeable lenses enable long distance and sharp transfers. ,
Photo transfer from cameras
So, does this mean that we will see technology on mirrorless cameras soon? No possibility, although some initial negotiations have taken place. We can only guess that they cannot buy until the file size transfer increases rapidly. Transferring photos from a camera to the phone is still a cumbersome multi-step process that affects the workflow efficiency, so removing the ad hoc connectivity required to facilitate transfer can help shut down time in doing so.
Image sensors also play a role, as processor. The cameras have an underlying advantage with the east, while the phone wins later. Full-frame and APS-C sensors can capture more light and expansion to improve their ability to solve high-level QR code, but their underlying processors are yellow compared to the power of smartphone chipset. The phone’s cameras need to be closer to catch the fine details, in the part because even small sensors will not be able to identify them even far away.
“(Lividop) Algorithm explains how the pixel needs to be in place and rebuilding, basically to learn that they actually need to go,” Antzolatos-Bergstein says. “If you have a building built on Lego pieces, and you break it and remember where all the pieces should be, you make it again in a different place, yet it looks exactly the same.”
While current sizes are so small that the difference in transfer speed is largely irrelevant, intervals can be widened because the Lividop continues to double or triple the range. In that case, small sensors of an inexpensive or mid-range phone and cheap optics may mean slow rates than a large sensor and better lens than flagship.
Raw files on phone or cameras present a challenge due to their large file size and limited file compression. Lividop is testing the transfer speed up to 6Mbps per second, which will bring it closer to pursuing them more. The question is whether the processor of a camera can create that work originally. A phone, tablet, or a raw photo to edit on the fly without any connectivity (or inserting a memory card) will feel like a game-chain for many photographers, especially when there will be no decline in the process.
Code reading everywhere
Antzoulatos-borgstein says that wearbals, including smart and AR glasses, offer an opportunity to scan the code and get files in a straight and judicious manner without the need of the phone. Additionally, now that the computer will now have rapid NPUs (nerve processing units), Lividop may be able to customize how to work relative to Code CPU, GPU and NPU power, even for smooth transfer for other devices.
There is also a possibility of adding another layer of encryption and access rights, some users may prefer with certain codes or files. These “keys” can be temporary or permanent, leaving access to a set expiration date open. In this way, lividop can block a transfer if the expected key is not in place. There is still no connectivity necessary; This is only one password to enable access.
For iOS and Android users, however, using the app is a simple as it gets. Choose a file, choose to share it, a moving QR code appears, and then someone else scanns it. Cross-platform purpose makes it one of the easiest ways to ignore the garden with apple walls and share it with others, no matter what they choose.
