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Is the lack of mentioning Apple deliberate? It seems like they've already poured a lot of R&D into this for the Vision Pro, which might be exactly the kind of thing the friend needs.
It's not available yet. And in any case if this is the future there should be multiple companies doing it, not just Apple.
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This has nothing to do with anything and it isn't even true. You are talking about cobalt and that is only used in lithium ion batteries. You can avoid cobalt by using lithium iron phosphate batteries. There are active efforts to develop new lithium ion chemistries to avoid cobalt and there are even commercial sodium ion batteries now. You bring this in to a completely irrelevant conversation, what have you done to h…
Lithium extraction is also very bad for the environment. Requires insane amounts of water, requires often times destroying forests or other natural areas that are on top of lithium, etc. Sure I use lithium ion batteries too, in the developed country I live in, I can't go and live in a cave. But I won't buy a SUV that weighs 2 tons to sit alone in it most of the time and have it parked 95% of the time in a garage. The…
But I won't buy a SUV that weighs 2 tons to sit alone in it most of the time and have it parked 95% of the time in a garage.
What are you even talking about? This whole thread is about eye tracking.
We should strive to be sober, to buy repairable goods whenever possible, to educate ourselves on environmental impact of things, and perhaps more importantly to teach this to our children
Are you doing that?
Solving eye-tracking keyboards is not so much a task for a company with eye-tracking expertise but for one with expertise in large language models.
Please elaborate.
By my math, 5k people in the US are diagnosed per year, and if your keyboard costs $1k, then your ARR is $5m, and maybe the company valuation is $50m. Numerically, this is pretty far from the goal of a typical YC company.
I hate to be so cold-hearted about the calculations, but I've had a few friends get really passionate about assistive tech, and then get crushed by the financial realities. Just from the comments, you can see how many startups went either the military route or got acquired into VR programs.
The worst I've seen, btw, is trying to build a better powered wheelchair. All the tech is out there to make powered wheelchairs less bulky and more functional, but the costs of getting it approved for health insurance to pay the price, combined with any possible risk of them falling over, combined with the tiny market you are addressing makes it nearly impossible to develop and ship an improvement. I do hope that we reach a tipping point in the near future where a new wheelchair makes sense to build, because something more nimble would be a big improvement to people's lives.
I agree, eye tracking is going to have really broad applications. I've been interested in eye tracking for over a decade, and in fact built my own eye tracker, joined a startup, and got acquired by Google[1]. But there's way more to do. We've barely scratched the surface of what's possible with eye tracking and I'd love to take a second crack at it. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/24/google-buys-eyefluence-eye...
> But there's way more to do. We've barely scratched the surface of what's possible with eye tracking and I'd love to take a second crack at it.
What do you have in mind? What would you like to see?
I suspect the real moneymakers for such startups have very little to do with ALS. ALS demand is fortunately small, and can't lead to VC desired growth curve. Imagine instead using it in a classroom to ensure the kids pay attention. Or making sure you see the advertisement.
Imagine being a parent and being ok with this?
The real "moneymakers" in eye-tracking have always been and will continue to be Defense applications for better or worse.
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Lithium extraction is also very bad for the environment. Requires insane amounts of water, requires often times destroying forests or other natural areas that are on top of lithium, etc. Sure I use lithium ion batteries too, in the developed country I live in, I can't go and live in a cave. But I won't buy a SUV that weighs 2 tons to sit alone in it most of the time and have it parked 95% of the time in a garage. The…
This thread is about eye tracking. You went from talking about the congo for some reason to now shifting to "lithium takes a lot of water". But I won't buy a SUV that weighs 2 tons to sit alone in it most of the time and have it parked 95% of the time in a garage. What are you even talking about? This whole thread is about eye tracking. We should strive to be sober, to buy repairable goods whenever possible, to educa…
The entire supply chain and lifecycle of a product should be evaluated to understand if it is a net positive or a net negative. Not only the finished product: "wow eye tracking how cool let's deploy everywhere regardless of how the materials for that tech are mined and how the device will be recycled once obsolete".