Scannerless smartphone movie tickets are coming next year
Like paper tickets before them, major theater chains may soon be doing away with scanners to read smartphone tickets. The website MovieTickets.com announced today that it’s rolling out smartphone tickets that will be verified with real human eyes, as opposed to red scanner eyes that verify with a beep. To bring us scannerless smartphone ticketing, MovieTickets.com partnered with Bytemark, a company specializing in mobile ticketing systems requiring little more than smartphones. MovieTicket.com’s smartphone tickets will use Bytemark’s “V3” technology, or “visually verifiable virtual” tickets, starting next year.