The VoltAir Project

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76 points·nodivbyzero··8 comments

Additional context: Latest commit 88bc3c8 on Jul 16, 2014

I would rather see the Fun Propulsion Labs make SceneKit and SpriteKit like tooling from Android than the pile of random libraries that they have placed in their Github.

One watches WWDC and Build game related talks, they talk about how to make games on their platforms. One watches Google IO and it is all about Play Store and Firebase integration.

I wonder what backend infrastructure Google is training from the input generated from the uses input

app last updated in 2014. This seems pretty old?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.fpl...

Am I the only one that read the FAQ half-expecting to see some crowdsourced data mining / AI training piece along with this? Perhaps because it was released by Google and had the word "project" in the title.

Could they be developing some physics aware neural nets, and needed a high performance physics engine, to use for training? /sips his conspiracy tea

I know some of the engineers on the project, and can verify that they are not doing neural nets or AI at all. Their reasons for writing this are exactly as they say publicly.

Occam's razor applies, but in terms of conspiracy tea, do you like the green kind or the transparent kind? ;-)

I actually read the title and thought it was an X project for wireless power transmission.

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