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by bobsil1 10y ago
>You lose VTOL Joby and Zee are using wings plus VTOL. They shut down the VTOL rotors for level flight.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
You can stack the traffic. Delivery drones will kill the view anyway. You can build in passive safety + have them follow freeways.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
You can run the motors out of phase to cancel noise.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Long after they're blocked by swarms of delivery drones.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
You're thinking too narrowly. - Solve traffic - Live in Santa Cruz, commute to SF - Buy a mansion in Modesto, commute to Palo Alto - The views! These will be VTOL, electric, autonomous air taxis, not road-drivable cars.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Yes. You can sum rotor areas to add up to same as one big rotor.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Gas requires fuel and exhaust pipes, and is only efficient at some engine sizes. Electric, you can hang anywhere on the airframe, at many sizes. It's quiet, requires for urban VTOL. Distributed propulsion also lets you run props out of
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Just follow freeways. Though that gives up point to point efficiency.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Full text http://pastebin.com/3JUmw97b
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by bobsil1 10y ago
No causality. Can anyone think of another reason why blacks turned out more for Barack?
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Make routine phone calls. Call school and tell them my kid will be out. Understand routine replies.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Elevator pitch: AirBnb for markets
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by bobsil1 10y ago
One of their patents mentions using stacked diffraction optical elements. Details unclear: >[0216] Such may be used to cancel light from the planar waveguides with respect to light from the background or real world, in some respects simi
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Always true in recent wars. $100B/yr in Afghanistan, could pay off almost every combatant for a fraction.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Thanks for the paper link. Is there a plausible way to use destructive interference to create true black? I remember patents around this.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Some kind of AR will pretty clearly be a big wave (processing components shrinking, but input/output still human size, so they get virtualized). The funds need to make big bets, this one looked good: best tech from UW prof, a founder w
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Depends on size of occluded area? If I block the sun with my thumb, some light does go around, but it's still a decently effective mask.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
AR headsets already exist, are not vaporware, already are selling into enterprise markets (e.g. Atheer, Lumus). They're clunky and expensive. MLeap is the only one I know of which has raised the $ needed for consumer-level polish and p
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by bobsil1 10y ago
I think the factory is part of the campus. And they need a factory because the parts are custom.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Probably similar to HoloLens, very different from Glass. There are ways to hard-occlude, e.g. LCD mask, but might be punted til a later version.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
- Unlike VR, they don't have to render backgrounds - FOV is apparently their big advantage, along with focus zones - They could do hard occlusion with an LCD mask. Or they could punt til v2, and soft-occlude with blur using their stack
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by bobsil1 10y ago
They're aiming for mobile pricing, and could subsidize just like mobile, $199 + wireless contract.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
MLeap is scanned, but they'll have a limit on the switching speed of the laser + color components.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Who else has plowed a billion into a waveguide and light engine factory?
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by bobsil1 10y ago
You need $$$ for mfg scale to get the waveguide price down and to build the light engine at all, it's not off-the-shelf.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
The hype is probably for recruiting. But, "Magic" in the name is like the handicap principle of biology, means the founders had a big prior exit and can raise despite the name ;) Like Magic Cap operating system — usually means goo
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by bobsil1 10y ago
They're focused on enterprise, MLeap on consumer. MS also isn't a single-product startup.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
How Magic Leap probably works, based on patents: http://gpuofthebrain.com/blog/2016/7/22/how-magic-leap-will-...
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by bobsil1 10y ago
There's a mobility premium since this fits in your pocket. Much smaller than an A6300 with pancake lens. You could potentially jog with this in a wildlife refuge, then take bird shots.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
"Advancing our amazing bet" = "Pausing our struggling bet"

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