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Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)


Humane AI (Humane, hereafter) combines the mid-2010s failed concept of using a laser projector to project on the body with the early 2000s failed projector phone (something I wrote about in 2013), …

Humane AI Founders (left), Elizabeth Holmes, San Bankman-Fried, Ronnie Abovitz, and Steve JobsThis blog has documented for over 12 years how laser scanning is a terrible way to generate a display image. In short, the scanning process is too slow and inaccurate to generate a high-resolution image, and the lasers can’t be controlled fast and accurately enough to give good color depth, not to mention the poor power efficiency. These same “businesspeople” will run most startups through the wringer for a few million in VC money and then hold a cash bonfire with Humane AI and Magic Leap ( another company that originally told investors that a key technology was laser projection).

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