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TechieTwo Great… but can it tell if the person has a legit concealed carry permit? 😉 Reply
VizzieTheViz TechieTwo said: Great… but can it tell if the person has a legit concealed carry permit? 😉 In most countries people aren’t allowed to carry handguns (let alone all the other guns that are legal to own and carry in the US), concealed or otherwise. It seems this tech could be somewhat useful if deployed in settings where the building layout is well known and guns pose even more risk than they normally do by, well, just being a gun. The accuracy and problems when the building layout is unknown looks like it’s not very usable in other scenarios yet. Reply
rluker5 Sounds like a job for a novel holster coating. To tell that wifi detector you are good to go. Reply
bill001g This almost seems like a AI hallucination to begin with. How could they know its a gun but not know where on a person it was located. It would have to somehow be detecting shape and then it would know the location. If it is just somehow detecting metal how does it tell that is not steel in a workman boots. They also do not say if there were testing for concealed or open carried weapons. Wifi has massive trouble going through materials and it must pass though the materials twice. They also did not detail the distance they were testing at and wifi loses power exponentially with distance. They also did not state if they were using legal transmit power or some military weapon stuff. More likely this is some data that will be proven wrong by a different group in the future. The guys that wrote it seem similar to university groups that must publish stuff to keep there funding. Little is done when the published studies are found to be incorrect in the future. At best they write a small disclaimer but they are too busy publishing their next set of nonsense so they keep getting their paycheck from some source that tends to funded by taxpayers. Reply
USAFRet Thanks to all that participated, but this is going farther and farther afield. Closing it. Reply
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