I'm completely open to consulting, bring 'em on. On the other-hand, have you seen today's job market?

Thanks, I'll check this out. I've seen more tech failures because someone was jealous of their ideas, and I never want to make that mistake. I want everyone who wants to to be able to play with this. I think it's a big idea with huge possibilities and I certainly don't want to encourage and not stand in the way of any innovation. at the same time, That's why the first thing I want to make is a dev kit. On the other hand, I want to be able to share in any profits that come out of it.

Very different in approach and problem space. I'm doing only relative tracking, not absolute position or distance, only displacement from a known relative pose or position.

A glove is a great application for this, but bears the most upfront development costs necessary for the small form factor. Big, as in for horses, or jackets, is a lot simpler, cheaper development target.

You address this as if a dev kit were to be my product. It's intended merely to promote and showcase the technology. Companies that see the capabilities and possibilites can then go on to license and develop their own targeted products, for example, fully instrumented sport clothing that could capture your golf game to a flash drive for later playback and analysis What's .01% of that market?

Most common applications I foresee are for biologic tracking, legs, arms, hoofs, hands and fingers, fins, etc. Because it's wireless RF based most industrial applications would probably introduce too much reflective multipath. And the application has just been submitted and is not yet public, but the title is "Methods, Apparatus and Systems for Wireless Determination of Relative Spatial Relationship between Two Locations."

Exactly the way I wish to proceed, especially with the dev kits. My problem is the $100K or so of upfront design it takes to get to get to the Gerber files necessary to start production of them. My early and, perhaps premature, estimate of cost of production is below $500 a unit, one a line gets rolling.

I agree with you completely. If only I could find those partners.

Bless you!

I'm in the Redmond area. SCORE was helpful, but I'm afraid I just don't have an aptitude for business. I've developed a solid business plan, but don't have any sense on how to go forward with it.

Because I had an expert in RF build my prototype and those were his measurements.

Good advice. I did read the employement agreement, and added an explicit exception to this as a rider.

I see this as a low-cost mass market commoditiy opening applications in sports, medicine, gaming, exercise, vetrinary, an on. I haven't given the traditional mocap market much attention since this technology is 1) very disruptive due to it's very low cost and 2) a motion picture studio has a market for a few of these and if they're selling in the $1 or less range, it's a great deal for them, but not much of a market for me.

I'd love to contact you. Your email appears to be hidden.

Yeah, you're right. I really couldn't work on this while I was at Microsoft.