Actually at Disneyland they take your picture with the scanner it is all in the same unit, as a previous poster said it actually takes less than a minute. Getting thru the gates is very efficient at Disneyland, this really shouldn't mess up the lines at Disney World.
You are correct by law they cannot capture more than 7 points of your fingerprint. Going to 8+ points is considered fingerprinting by Federal Law and is illegal. Computing power these days would not be the reason it would slow down the the lines for the Bio-Metrics, Disney stores your Biometric with your Ticket Number in a database and then checks to see if it matches. It is a quick "Yes" "No" math formula that lights up blue if it wrong, and green if it correct.
I'm surprised it took so long too as I have seen plenty of times that the fingerprint doesn't work and after three times cast member just let's them in with no other check.
I wonder how many unsolved crimes would have new leads if Disney did collect fingerprints and the government forced them to share the data. Talk amongst yourselves...
DL has what I think you're referring to and uses them. The CMs with iPads are there at DLR, but the vast majority of entrances are still done with the traditional turnstiles (at least in the fall of 2013). You scan your ticket, and the CM can see your picture on their side of the turnstile. I'd guess that WDW installed the same hardware when they put in the new RFID turnstiles, but just haven't used it yet.
They could just go back to the two finger scanners they used to have.
And I highly doubt Disney will create NFC phone tickets, as that would remove the benefits of a MagicBand.
And those benefits are? ????
Not really. NFC would certainly be more secure than plastic tickets (people are far less likely to let others have their phone) and the only advantage of magic bands (to disney) is the ability to track guests through the park/attractions.
To Disney the advantage is th long range tracking. Disney also planned to monetize the tracking through attraction interactivity (the custom "it's a small world" endings) and services like Memory Maker.
That would require deploying a separate set of tracking infrastructure, like iBeacon. Limiting toa smart watch really doesn't make sense either, as most still require a phone, so it'd be the phone that is tracked, not the smart watch.
I wonder how many unsolved crimes would have new leads if Disney did collect fingerprints and the government forced them to share the data. Talk amongst yourselves...
