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>Motion Sense will be available in select countries. Just...why? What is the point of region locking this? It's only hardware, isn't it?
by nexuist 7y ago
>Motion Sense will be available in select countries.
Just...why? What is the point of region locking this? It's only hardware, isn't it?
- psychometry 7y agoPatents?
- rtkwe 7y agoIt's much more likely it's just regulatory. Not every country has the same rules on spectrum usage and may require additional certification before allowing Google to use the Wi-Gig band. The FCC raised the power max for them when they approved the chip back in January. They're probably running into issues getting similar allowances in other countries (or not bothering to because of the small market). [0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/googles-project-soli-radar-gesture-chip-isnt-dead-gets-fcc-approval/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/googles-project-soli...
- opencl 7y agoGoogle does love pointless region locking but this is probably due to RF certification requirements from each country's equivalent to the FCC.
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- Rebelgecko 7y agoThe 60Ghz band isn't legal to use in every country
- rtkwe 7y agoIt's emitting a lot of signals to run the radar it's using so I imagine it's tougher to get the approvals to do that in all countries. They might have to get per country approval for the local FCC/Ofcom equivalent before enabling it in each country because it's a relatively new class of device.
- israrkhan 7y agoThe frequency spectrum is reserved for military use in certain countries.