Re:This AI Boom Will Also Bust
by AndrewKemendo on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:10AM
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You're ignoring form factor for optimized technology.
Yes, a quality TOF system would be great. However good luck convincing consumers to adopt hardware with lidar on it. The Tango is having enough trouble on it's own and it does pretty well for consumer systems with IR.
Besides that you can't do FTDT with laser systems AFAIK. You need something to capture unseen places, such as ultrasonics/HF - which I guess you could argue fall into TOF but I haven't seen that work done.
In the end my money (literally!) is on the opposite if your approach, namely building better RGB systems because there are already a trillion cameras deployed that we can extract from.
Yes, a quality TOF system would be great. However good luck convincing consumers to adopt hardware with lidar on it. The Tango is having enough trouble on it's own and it does pretty well for consumer systems with IR.
Besides that you can't do FTDT with laser systems AFAIK. You need something to capture unseen places, such as ultrasonics/HF - which I guess you could argue fall into TOF but I haven't seen that work done.
In the end my money (literally!) is on the opposite if your approach, namely building better RGB systems because there are already a trillion cameras deployed that we can extract from.