GitHub designer builds a particle-cloud QR alternative with GPT-6 Astra
Maxime De Greve's Octoglow sends a six-digit code between screens through a camera-readable animation inspired by Apple's Quick Start.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
Octoglow shows how frontier models can turn a designer's screenshots and interaction concept into a working camera prototype, while leaving reliability as the hard part.
Maxime De Greve (@MaximeDeGreve), a designer and developer on GitHub's Copilot team, published a browser experiment on September 14th that replaces the familiar black-and-white QR square with a moving cloud of light generated and read on separate screens.
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