'Shazam for faces' app Blippar now 99.67% accurate

You will soon be able to instantly identify people using a futuristic facial recognition app on your smartphone. The app scans faces and brings up a profile with information about the person including links to their social media profiles. The augmented reality technology, from London-based firm Blippar, can recognise over 400,000 public figures and has a more than 99 per cent accuracy rate. It can even tell apart identical twins such as American actresses the Olsen twins, British Olympic runners the Brownlee Brothers and Irish pop duo Jedward. Blippar's augmented reality technology (pictured) can recognise over 400,000 public figures and has a more than 99 per cent accuracy rate.