Slightly OT, but when migrating data between iPhones, the old iPhone displays an animated point cloud that appears to function like a QR code. You scan it with the new phone, and your data starts to migrate locally through Bluetooth.
Other than aesthetics, what are the advantages of the point cloud? Higher bandwidth?
Also, if you were to transfer 100s of megabytes of data from device A to B, using A's display and B's camera, what tech would you look into?
Here is a good demo of a streaming qr solution. Not ours but a good demo of the concept.
We use a similar method for offline wallet transfers of private crypto keys. I’ll note a couple things. Keep the frame simple and not too dense. Be careful on ecc settings. Higher res camera androids to be slower in our testing. Be ready to loop the series to catch missed frames. Gives your frames and order context. If it’s really sensitive dat, encrypt it before encoding you QR. assume the video can be stolen from a camera. Inject noisy frames To help obfuscate.
I've been wondering how one could efficiently and reliably pack arbitrary data into YouTube videos, a hacky way to get free and obfuscated data storage. Streaming QR codes has been the most promising way I can think of, particularly since they offer resilience against YouTube's video re-encoding process and are standardized for far larger codes, which could be easily fit in a video for later parsing out by a tool. You could probably embed even greater data densities with a color QR solution too.