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Not in France. French civil law on inheritance is much more strict than common law. For example, you cannot disinherit your children.

WD has published a list of SMR drives : https://blog.westerndigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2...

Visual odometry is getting quite accurate. For example, it is used on the Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) to improve the position obtained from wheel odometry [1]. As you mentionned, the big accomplishment is doing this in real time on a mobile device. On a typical mobile ARM processor, it would probably be very slow and drain the battery in no time. That's why they are using a custom coprocessor designed specifically for image processing and computer vision. The next challenge is porting the existing visual odometry algorithms on this new processor. It looks like hiDOF did the implementation [2].

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rob.20184/abstrac...

[2] http://hidof.com/projects/project-tango/

It uses a Myriad 1 processor from Movidius http://www.movidius.com/tango. It's a custom media coprocessor aimed at mobile devices. I found more information about the processor architecture in these slides : http://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc23/...

Edit : Video of the talk associated with the slides http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiTaPRtN2yM

It can be done in real time. Here is a demonstration from Float4 Interactive : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_YOTZ4MCuA