
The company has spent the past few months trying to increase its SAFR sales, eventually placing the technology in a new video conferencing device from Katai. RealNetworks launched its SAFR facial recognition platform back in 2018, and then announced an upgraded version of the platform at ISC West in early 2019. There’s no longer a need to do a web search or reach for your phone,” explained RealNetworks Consumer Media VP Frederick Savoye. “More than 80 percent of consumers often ask themselves who’s on the screen they’re watching. The platform will also provide photos and other information when a user clicks on a video.

StarSearch will timestamp the scenes in which a specific person appears, allowing users to skip ahead if they so desire. Both platforms have been released for free, and leverage the technology in RealNetworks’ SAFR computer vision platform.Īccording to RealNetworks, the new tools will be useful to viewers who struggle to remember the names of the famous people that appear in their favorite videos.


and Canada, though it will make its way to other parts of the world later in the year. RealPlayer 20/20 is only available for Windows computers in the U.S. The browser extension has been dubbed StarSearch, and it is available through the Google Chrome store for Mac and PC.
