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by swanee 950 days ago
I thought this was around the corner years ago when Intel and partners had RealSense modules being built into laptops but it seems like all the players have shifted focus to more enterprise and industrial markets.
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Wii Remote (2006), Wiimote Whiteboard (2007), Kinect (2010), Leap Motion (2010- Ultraleap (2019)),

There are infrared depth cameras in various phones and laptop cameras now.

[VR] Motion controllers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_controller#Gaming

Inertial navigation system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system

Inertial measurement unit : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_measurement_unit :

> An inertial measurement unit (IMU) is an electronic device that measures and reports a body's specific force, angular rate, and sometimes the orientation of the body, using a combination of accelerometers, gyroscopes, and sometimes magnetometers. When the magnetometer is included, IMUs are referred to as IMMUs.[1]

Moasure does displacement estimation with inertial measurement (in a mobile app w/ just accelerometer or also compass sensor data?) IIUC: https://www.moasure.com/

/? wireless gesture recognition RSSI: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=wireless+gesture+recogn...

/? wireless gesture recognition RSSI site:github.com : https://www.google.com/search?q=wireless+gesture+recognition...

Awesome-WiFi-CSI-Sensing > Indoor Localization: https://github.com/Marsrocky/Awesome-WiFi-CSI-Sensing#indoor...

3D Scanning > Technology, Applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_scanning#Technology

Are there a limited set of possible-path-corresponding diffraction patterns that NIRS (Near-Infrared Spectroscopy) could sense and process to make e.g. a magic pencil with pressure sensitivity, too?

/q.hnlog "quantum navigation": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36222625#36250019 :

> Quantum navigation maps such signal sources such that inexpensive sensors can achieve something like inertial navigation FWIU?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=36249897 :

> Can low-cost lasers and Rdyberg atoms e.g. Rydberg Technology solve for [space-based] matter-wave interferometry? [...] Does a fishing lure bobber on the water produce gravitational waves as part of the n-body gravitational wave fluid field, and how separable are the source wave components with e.g. Quantum Fourier Transform/or and other methods?

Because the digitizer

> e.g. a magic pencil with pressure sensitivity, too?

Wouldn't such a capability also be useful for surgical AR/AI, robotics, and training?