I agree completely. I have no interest in developing products or applications, but licensing the technology to companies that can see the applications. I'm convinced that fully instrumented body suits and sports jackets could be retailed down to the $500 range opening up broad consumer applicaton markets.
I have a proof-of-theory prototype i.e. move the antennas relative to one another and get predictable readings and have already developed the math libraries in support of combining readings into Cartesian coordinates. . This is a far cry from a product however, and a substanstial amount of development needs to take place to make a working product. RF design houses that I've talked with figure about $100K for me to get to a working development kit. I'm aiming for a dev kit that would support about 20 targets and have a form factor in the neightborhood of a cigar box. I would want to price it at less than $1K.
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I'm a big fan of virtual and augmented reality. One day I was noodling around with the concept of virtual gloves, when it struck me that all that was needed for a good representation of hand movement was to track the tip of the fingers and then interpolate the joints. This isn't a wholly new idea, but it got me thinking about how you'd track the tip of the finger. Conventional RF measures like flight time are not really feasible for such a short distance. But it occurred to me that if I had a transmitter on the wrist and a receiver on the finger tip, then after achieving a base phase, I could accurately track movement by movement within the phase of the wave form. And simple interferometry
delivers accuracy to almost any level.
And all of those conjectures just came out my my thinking about electronics in naive wave forms. I then went to experts in the field that confirmed my speculation. I then did a couple months of due diligence: Was it really a fiable solution, what's the catch. Why hasn't anyone else done this. When I finally satisfied myself that it was viable, unique. I then was able to round up a professional acquaintance who does RF design for a living work me up a simple proof-of-theory prototype. I've then spent the rest of my time doing competitive analysis and refining the patent.
I would love to open source this for any non-profit uses. I just don't know how to go about it and still protect for-profit licensing agreements and products.
The job I quit was as a software architect for Microsoft, so, no, a job isn't what I'm looking for. I had a pretty good one. I'm afraid that I'm addicted to tech startups. I think I've got a pretty important new thing here and I'm concerned about immediate survival mode until I can get this thing to ignition. And I haven't been looking for a buyer as much as development partners and seed funding.
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I agree completely. I have no interest in developing products or applications, but licensing the technology to companies that can see the applications. I'm convinced that fully instrumented body suits and sports jackets could be retailed down to the $500 range opening up broad consumer applicaton markets.
I have a proof-of-theory prototype i.e. move the antennas relative to one another and get predictable readings and have already developed the math libraries in support of combining readings into Cartesian coordinates. . This is a far cry from a product however, and a substanstial amount of development needs to take place to make a working product. RF design houses that I've talked with figure about $100K for me to get to a working development kit. I'm aiming for a dev kit that would support about 20 targets and have a form factor in the neightborhood of a cigar box. I would want to price it at less than $1K.
I love this question! I'm a big fan of virtual and augmented reality. One day I was noodling around with the concept of virtual gloves, when it struck me that all that was needed for a good representation of hand movement was to track the tip of the fingers and then interpolate the joints. This isn't a wholly new idea, but it got me thinking about how you'd track the tip of the finger. Conventional RF measures like flight time are not really feasible for such a short distance. But it occurred to me that if I had a transmitter on the wrist and a receiver on the finger tip, then after achieving a base phase, I could accurately track movement by movement within the phase of the wave form. And simple interferometry delivers accuracy to almost any level. And all of those conjectures just came out my my thinking about electronics in naive wave forms. I then went to experts in the field that confirmed my speculation. I then did a couple months of due diligence: Was it really a fiable solution, what's the catch. Why hasn't anyone else done this. When I finally satisfied myself that it was viable, unique. I then was able to round up a professional acquaintance who does RF design for a living work me up a simple proof-of-theory prototype. I've then spent the rest of my time doing competitive analysis and refining the patent.
I would love to open source this for any non-profit uses. I just don't know how to go about it and still protect for-profit licensing agreements and products.
The job I quit was as a software architect for Microsoft, so, no, a job isn't what I'm looking for. I had a pretty good one. I'm afraid that I'm addicted to tech startups. I think I've got a pretty important new thing here and I'm concerned about immediate survival mode until I can get this thing to ignition. And I haven't been looking for a buyer as much as development partners and seed funding.