Mobile ID World is coming to you live from Barcelona this week as we cover the biggest event in mobility: Mobile World Congress.

Peter O’Neill, president of Mobile ID World, snapped some photos from the exhibition floor on day one of MWC 2016. Here’s a look at what he’s been seeing.

Mobile World Congress, Day 1:

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Since day one, MWC was high energy, bustling, and buzzing about mobile biometrics. Next year the conference will be taking place from February 27 to March 2, 2017. See you there!

Morpho (Safran) as usual has new biometric technologies on display. See our pre-MWC interview with Yves Portalier* to learn more.

This year Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S7* line of smartphones and demonstrated new VR tech with Facebook.

VISA had biometrics front and center at their booth!

VISA’s Vice President Innovation & Strategic Partnerships, Garth Petersen, demonstrated iris biometrics to the press at MWC on day one.

The Aldebaran robot was there at the Microsoft booth too!

Footnotes:

*       INTERVIEW: Morpho (Safran)’s Yves Portalier

**     Galaxy S7 Models Unveiled in Barcelona, To Launch in March

***   Aldebaran Robotics