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I completely agree. I think in the case of Lightform, their core projection mapping algorithm is already public and has open source implementations. It's call
by astroalex 5y ago
I completely agree.
I think in the case of Lightform, their core projection mapping algorithm is already public and has open source implementations. It's called "structured light". A quick search turned up this open source implementation: https://github.com/jhdewitt/sltk https://github.com/jhdewitt/sltk
- bsedlm 5y agomaybe that's why they failed, they should have kept it closed and private with tight controls, patents, etc... in order to really profit. couldn't they even get in trouble with their investors for having failed to achieve profitability with this misguided "open" strategy? /devil's-advocate
- astroalex 5y agoI could be wrong but I think they built their product on research that was already open and public. I believe the technique predates the company. Their "moat" was never the mapping algorithm itself; it was the suite of tools (hardware and software) that allowed users to easily map content without understanding the details of that algorithm. I don't think their problem was that everyone was flocking to the open source tools. I think their problem is that the market for automatic projection mapping is extremely small.