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Fake junk. Take a look at the last rendering. Looks like a 11thcentury painter's attempt at 3-dimensionality
On 2020-09-22 20:03, RichA wrote:
https://petapixel.com/2020/09/22/ali...tional-camera/ Oddly enough this resembles an idea I had some time ago, though the Alice looks much better than what I was thinking. The article is clear that this is only at the pre-crowd-funding stage so far so renders and 3D models are all that there are to date. You should love it. Micro 4/3. -- "...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." -Samuel Clemens |
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Fake junk. Take a look at the last rendering. Looks like a 11th century painter's attempt at 3-dimensionality
On 2020-09-23 18:12, RichA wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 September 2020 20:40:38 UTC-4, Alan Browne wrote: On 2020-09-22 20:03, RichA wrote: https://petapixel.com/2020/09/22/ali...tional-camera/ Oddly enough this resembles an idea I had some time ago, though the Alice looks much better than what I was thinking. The article is clear that this is only at the pre-crowd-funding stage so far so renders and 3D models are all that there are to date. You should love it. Micro 4/3. -- "...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." -Samuel Clemens They couldn't even afford a mock-up, how flat-broke are these people? They had a mockup, 3D printed I assume. They have little capital and are about to do an indigogo fund raiser. Try reading what you post links to before posting. It's a fine idea. Put all the hard work into the smartphone - that's where the heavy lifting processors are - and they are updated often, software updates are cheap and easily deployable. It's where the communications and storage are. The front end just needs to support the most basic photographic things. Mount, aperture and shutter control, sensor - all to the minimum possible and then offload the captured image to the smartphone... -- "...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." -Samuel Clemens |
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Fake junk. Take a look at the last rendering. Looks like a 11th century painter's attempt at 3-dimensionality
On 2020-09-25 18:13, RichA wrote:
On Thursday, 24 September 2020 08:49:40 UTC-4, Alan Browne wrote: On 2020-09-23 18:12, RichA wrote: On Tuesday, 22 September 2020 20:40:38 UTC-4, Alan Browne wrote: On 2020-09-22 20:03, RichA wrote: https://petapixel.com/2020/09/22/ali...tional-camera/ Oddly enough this resembles an idea I had some time ago, though the Alice looks much better than what I was thinking. The article is clear that this is only at the pre-crowd-funding stage so far so renders and 3D models are all that there are to date. You should love it. Micro 4/3. -- "...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." -Samuel Clemens They couldn't even afford a mock-up, how flat-broke are these people? They had a mockup, 3D printed I assume. They have little capital and are about to do an indigogo fund raiser. Try reading what you post links to before posting. It's a fine idea. Put all the hard work into the smartphone - that's where the heavy lifting processors are - and they are updated often, software updates are cheap and easily deployable. It's where the communications and storage are. The front end just needs to support the most basic photographic things. Mount, aperture and shutter control, sensor - all to the minimum possible and then offload the captured image to the smartphone... -- "...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." -Samuel Clemens Your newsreader doesn't strip signatures. It's going to end up like all the other things that worked in a similar fashion. Are you referring to cameras or crowd sourced funding? Pebble watch was quite successful and delivered. The co. ultimately collapsed but the IP was acquired by Fitbit. Leftover funds from their second round product were returned to contributors. Oculus was so successful that the evil empire (aka Facebook) acquired it for $2B. Skybell video doorbell - another success. Tile. (Object locating device). Huge success. Many others. As to this project: Depends on: - funding - ability of the concept/engineering team - ability of the marketing team - lens and flash compatibility (and other accessories) - sustaining engineering (based on revenues) - continued development I'd go for this if it gave my lens collection a fresh lease on life. Given the oddball aperture interface on Minolta/Sony lenses, that would make it a "last item" compatibility goal for the project, I 'spect. -- "...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." -Samuel Clemens |
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Fake junk. Take a look at the last rendering. Looks like a 11th century painter's attempt at 3-dimensionality
In article , Alan Browne
wrote: Tile. (Object locating device). Huge success. not for long and they know it. it also wasn't that effective, nor could it be. |
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Tile (was "Fake J").
On 2020-09-26 14:04, nospam wrote:
In article , Alan Browne wrote: Tile. (Object locating device). Huge success. not for long and they know it. The context was crowd funding and Tile certainly was successful in getting funding and deploying a good, functional product and remains (I believe) the market leader. If Apple's widget is iOS/PadOS/WatchOS only then Tile will retain a huge market opportunity base. Tile have had a good run with no issues and have grown their product base. Personally I think it's an error to have a subscription service on top of a relatively expensive widget. I almost bought some to attach to my drones in case one went off the ranch. But my flying habits are very conservative and RTH (testing) has proven very reliable - as long as it's correctly configured. Apple's deployment of whatever it'll be called will depend, as always, on costs to the user. If the widget is relatively cheap and the crowdsourcing is free, then it will surely takeoff. Limiting it to iOS/iPad/WatchOS will limit it's market opportunities as noted above. it also wasn't that effective, nor could it be. I know people who have located several things in the direct mode - ie: the tile brought them close enough to find the object by the noise it makes when triggered. Not sure about the crowd sourced mode - but there's no reason that should not work - at least in more urban areas. -- "...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." -Samuel Clemens |
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Tile (was "Fake J").
In article , Alan Browne
wrote: Tile. (Object locating device). Huge success. not for long and they know it. The context was crowd funding and Tile certainly was successful in getting funding and deploying a good, functional product and remains (I believe) the market leader. If Apple's widget is iOS/PadOS/WatchOS only then Tile will retain a huge market opportunity base. not really, since tile requires a critical mass of tile users who have installed the tile app *and* are actively running in the background, which is something that will simply not happen in the numbers for it to be reliable. for apple's system, just one person with an ios device needs to be nearby at some point, and with well over a billion ios users, that's a virtual certainty. apple's system will also do more than just tell you the general vicinity, but *exactly* where the item is with roughly 1 cm accuracy. tile is history. they know it. the market knows it. that's why they've resorted to lawsuits. it's all they have left. |
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Tile (was "Fake J").
On 2020-09-27 09:24, nospam wrote:
In article , Alan Browne wrote: Tile. (Object locating device). Huge success. not for long and they know it. The context was crowd funding and Tile certainly was successful in getting funding and deploying a good, functional product and remains (I believe) the market leader. If Apple's widget is iOS/PadOS/WatchOS only then Tile will retain a huge market opportunity base. not really, since tile requires a critical mass of tile users who have installed the tile app *and* are actively running in the background, which is something that will simply not happen in the numbers for it to be reliable. Tile have accused Apple of dissuading users from using Tile in background: https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/02/apple-breaking-promises/ for apple's system, just one person with an ios device needs to be nearby at some point, and with well over a billion ios users, that's a virtual certainty. apple's system will also do more than just tell you the general vicinity, but *exactly* where the item is with roughly 1 cm accuracy. I doubt the 1 cm but within 1m or so is fine by me. tile is history. they know it. the market knows it. that's why they've resorted to lawsuits. it's all they have left. We'll see. I 'spect just due to the larger mass of Android phones that Tile will continue to do well. What lawsuits? They have testified to Congress and to EU antitrust regulators but I can't find any mention of a lawsuit. Lawsuits aren't always desperation - they can be legitimate pursuits of protecting one's IP or access to market. Apple do it too... At some point, iOS becomes likened to a "common carrier" of sorts (in this case as an appliance and OS) and has to be reasonably open in all ways to all comers. I think that is what Tile are pressing upon the US Congress and EU regulators. -- "...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." -Samuel Clemens |
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Tile (was "Fake J").
In article , Alan Browne
wrote: Tile. (Object locating device). Huge success. not for long and they know it. The context was crowd funding and Tile certainly was successful in getting funding and deploying a good, functional product and remains (I believe) the market leader. If Apple's widget is iOS/PadOS/WatchOS only then Tile will retain a huge market opportunity base. not really, since tile requires a critical mass of tile users who have installed the tile app *and* are actively running in the background, which is something that will simply not happen in the numbers for it to be reliable. Tile have accused Apple of dissuading users from using Tile in background: https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/02/apple-breaking-promises/ their claims are baseless and a clear sign of desperation. apple's changes to ios 13 are for overall security, not specifically targeting tile. it does affect tile, but it also affects a slew of other apps that want to get location in the background, usually for nefarious purposes. there is also no requirement that any store sell a particular product. for apple's system, just one person with an ios device needs to be nearby at some point, and with well over a billion ios users, that's a virtual certainty. apple's system will also do more than just tell you the general vicinity, but *exactly* where the item is with roughly 1 cm accuracy. I doubt the 1 cm but within 1m or so is fine by me. https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/09/t...one-11-is-the- beginning-of-an-ultra-wideband-revolution/ ...From raw data alone, UWB devices can detect locations within 10 centimeters (4 inches), but depending on implementation that accuracy can be lowered to as much as 5 millimeters, according to Mickael Viot, VP of marketing at UWB chipmaker Decawave. tile is history. they know it. the market knows it. that's why they've resorted to lawsuits. it's all they have left. We'll see. I 'spect just due to the larger mass of Android phones that Tile will continue to do well. that remains to be seen. there will be a much smaller install base to find a tile, making it less effective than it already is, which isn't particularly good. What lawsuits? They have testified to Congress and to EU antitrust regulators but I can't find any mention of a lawsuit. Lawsuits aren't always desperation - they can be legitimate pursuits of protecting one's IP or access to market. Apple do it too... At some point, iOS becomes likened to a "common carrier" of sorts (in this case as an appliance and OS) and has to be reasonably open in all ways to all comers. I think that is what Tile are pressing upon the US Congress and EU regulators. tile has a substantially inferior product and instead of improving it, they turn to the courts. that is not a good strategy. |
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Tile (was "Fake J").
On 2020-09-27 15:05, nospam wrote:
In article , Alan Browne wrote: Tile. (Object locating device). Huge success. not for long and they know it. The context was crowd funding and Tile certainly was successful in getting funding and deploying a good, functional product and remains (I believe) the market leader. If Apple's widget is iOS/PadOS/WatchOS only then Tile will retain a huge market opportunity base. not really, since tile requires a critical mass of tile users who have installed the tile app *and* are actively running in the background, which is something that will simply not happen in the numbers for it to be reliable. Tile have accused Apple of dissuading users from using Tile in background: https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/02/apple-breaking-promises/ their claims are baseless and a clear sign of desperation. Not baseless at all. They have clear proof that Apple's position of dominance and control over the app sphere has diminished the value of their product. apple's changes to ios 13 are for overall security, not specifically targeting tile. it does affect tile, but it also affects a slew of other apps that want to get location in the background, usually for nefarious purposes. Apple merely need to grant Tile's apps "non nefarious" status. Tile have a developer account with Apple and that would be very easy to implement. Unless ... there is also no requirement that any store sell a particular product. Apple's platforms are seen more and more as a "common carrier" sort of resource (as mentioned prior post) and so their effect on the app ecosphere is seen as over controlling. I don't really give a crap about Fortnite's complaint: they knew what they were getting into and used the base at any cost to develop their subscriber base. Can't have it both ways. for apple's system, just one person with an ios device needs to be nearby at some point, and with well over a billion ios users, that's a virtual certainty. apple's system will also do more than just tell you the general vicinity, but *exactly* where the item is with roughly 1 cm accuracy. I doubt the 1 cm but within 1m or so is fine by me. https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/09/t...one-11-is-the- beginning-of-an-ultra-wideband-revolution/ ...From raw data alone, UWB devices can detect locations within 10 centimeters (4 inches), but depending on implementation that accuracy can be lowered to as much as 5 millimeters, according to Mickael Viot, VP of marketing at UWB chipmaker Decawave. Position is trilateration based so from a single position that would be utterly impossible. Range, yes, position, forget it. Moving at a significant angle (say 30°) to the line of bearing would begin to get a relative position that converges toward a point. The greater the angle up to 90° the faster the estimate converges. Multipath might muck that up at longer distances ... though UWB may afford a lot of mitigation there. The flies in the ointment are 1) for short range baselines (10's of metres or so), the iPhone would be using its accelerometers and gyros to estimate the path of the "base" of the locating triangle. While the gyros are remarkably good, the accelerometers drift quite rapidly (mainly because they are very tiny), and 2) that if, say "co-operating" detector B wanders by A's lost object and detects its relative position (to B) within any accuracy (say 10 cm), when it transmits this info to the owner (via Apple's services), it will be based on the GNSS location of B at the time of detection and best estimate of position. That GNSS location is of course off by metres to even 10's of metres depending on various local conditions not to mention how good the local relative position was. Still, that gets pretty close to A's lost widget, and that is the point. Never take claims of accuracy in these things too literally w/o analyzing the entire error chain and conditions. IAC, you can bet I'll be testing these claims out when the widgets are available. That includes in the local dense forest and in urban jungles. My iPhone 11 Pro should support it. tile is history. they know it. the market knows it. that's why they've resorted to lawsuits. it's all they have left. We'll see. I 'spect just due to the larger mass of Android phones that Tile will continue to do well. that remains to be seen. If Android users can't use the Apple widget, then that's where they will turn to. Just reality. I know and you probably know people who want absolutely nothing to do with Apple for whatever reason. there will be a much smaller install base to find a tile, making it less effective than it already is, which isn't particularly good. I'd surmise that the vast majority of "find it" cases are localized on "not co-operative" mode. ie: where the heck are my keys? Where is my phone? What lawsuits? They have testified to Congress and to EU antitrust regulators but I can't find any mention of a lawsuit. Lawsuits aren't always desperation - they can be legitimate pursuits of protecting one's IP or access to market. Apple do it too... At some point, iOS becomes likened to a "common carrier" of sorts (in this case as an appliance and OS) and has to be reasonably open in all ways to all comers. I think that is what Tile are pressing upon the US Congress and EU regulators. tile has a substantially inferior product and instead of improving it, they turn to the courts. that is not a good strategy. It doesn't matter if their product is inferior, Apple should not be interfering with their access to those functions that make it as good as it can be. As value propositions go, this is free market and would allow Apple to charge more for their widget or force Tile to charge less for theirs. -- "...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." -Samuel Clemens |
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