Inside World Foundation: The ‘Orb,’ Digital Identity, & Human Verification | Ian Dilick

So let's talk about proof of human because how is that different than identity, right? Like how can we prove that I am a human being versus just seeing my ID or passport?

Yeah.

So this is actually a really tough problem.

This is why we had to build the orb, right? Right.

The orb is using the pattern of your iris to make sure that you're unique and using a bunch of machine learning models running locally on the orb to check and make sure it's actually a human, not like a photo of a human or a mannequin head or anything like that.

And that's how we.

let you prove that you're a human without ever needing to learn which human you are, right? There's also the NFC ID credential in WorldID where you can like scan the NFC chip of a passport.

That also allows you to prove that you're a human attested to by a government, right? which is more accessible for some people, right? They already like have their passport, they wouldn't need to visit an orb, but less than half of the global population has a digitally verifiable government ID.

So something like the orb is actually much more sort of universal than a passport.

And we have the orb sitting on the table between us for our listeners who are watching to see what it looks like.

Now with the orb, I've noticed there are locations.

Is it just across the United States or is it globally where you can actually walk into these world shops? I don't know if that's the correct terminology and use the orb to get that identification.

It's so we say that you like verify.

OK, verify, verify.

There are locations around the world.

And in some places you can actually have an orb like come to you.

Right.

The same way that you like order food on like some delivery service.

You only have to visit the orb once to verify, right? All of the data is self-custodied stored on your phone in your control.

We don't store any personal data anywhere, right? The orb isn't something that you need to have at your house.

It's just a one-time sort of initial verification and everything else from there is done with zero knowledge proofs and data that you control.

So if our listeners are not verified already and they want to be verified, what are those steps? Maybe walk us through the process.

So first step is download a WorldID compatible app, right? WorldApp is sort of the primary app that gets used for this.

Within WorldApp, you can actually like find an orb.

You can see the locations closest to you, see what times they're open.