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by stevage 18 days ago
>It can see WiFi through walls

I don't understand what this is trying to say. Everyone who has ever used wi-fi knows that it works through walls. You try to connect to a wi-fi in an apartment, and there are dozens of other networks showing up.

So this headline just seems...meaningless?

3 comments

It's RF vision, it let's you visualize RF sources as a coloured blob overlay in real time.
We know the definitions of "see" and when we take it to be in the "visualize" sense, it tracks for me.
I'm guessing if you can "see" Wifi through a wall, you can also infer some things about what's behind the wall, because the signal will have certain obstruction patterns. It becomes an xray.