Cameras are Watching and Machines are Learning: The Beginning

LDV Capital, a venture capital firm focussed on Visual Technologies, recently published a 19 page report thick with some pretty eye opening data around cameras. Specifically, how many cameras we can expect to have watching us, what they are watching us for, and how those insights will be used. According to their study, by 2022 there will be more than 44,354,881,622 [1] (that's 44 BILLION) cameras in use globally, collecting even more billions of images for visual collateral. This is incredible -- but what's interesting -- is that most of these images will never be seen by human eyes. This forecast is a revelation that our use of cameras is evolving into something markedly different than the random Snapchat clips and candid family memories of now.