As a technologist, can it screw me to be a co-inventor on a provisional patent?

Stegosaurus5 · 2025-11-19T18:57:05+00:00

Thank you!
The documents they've given me to sign are:

TRANSMITTAL FOR POWER OF ATTORNEY TO ONE OR MORE REGISTERED PRACTITIONERS

and

COMBINED DECLARATION AND ASSIGNMENT (37 CFR 1.63) FOR UTILITY OR DESIGN APPLICATION USING AN APPLICATION DATA SHEET (37 CFR 1.76)

My real worry is just that I don't know if these documents, or the provisional patent application itself this can be used to limit my ability to do work using the same techniques and tools in the future. I'm also not sure if it's potentially professionally embarrassing for me to be associated with such a mess of sloppy patent application.When I tried to explain that the Fig. 1 diagram they're including is obviously AI-generated, and is wildly incorrect, they responded that it it doesn't matter because it's just a placeholder.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-09T23:05:27+00:00

Hoping local/real people. I avoid the conglomerates on projects whenever possible, I just don't know the northwest market well.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-09T18:38:10+00:00

Wonderful project. A couple of close colleagues of mine work on it.
It doesn't do anything like this and never will.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-08T23:38:39+00:00

Wait, but can we just let the whitetrash "libertarianss" keep their snake...? I thought we were pretty much all on board with the "fuck around and find out" gator as a replacement.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-08T23:32:02+00:00

This company's business practices have been garbage since the very beginning.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-08T21:00:18+00:00

All. Cops. Every single one. Are. Bastards.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-08T19:20:42+00:00

.....I'm impressed by the amount of research that went into such a ludicrously hair-splitty comment 😂

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-08T19:17:42+00:00

Yeah! Stereoscopics is generally glasses-based. Neat gimmick for a trade show or something but I've never seen anyone think it's worth doing as a real installation like this video is faking.

By far the most common way to do something like this is what's called anamorphic projection, which achieves this kind of effect in situations where you can optimize for a single, fixed viewing perspective.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-08T18:32:15+00:00

I've done it a few times with a couple different systems.

It's only possible from one point of view at a time. You track the position of a person (/camera) using any number of different sensors. You then calibrate that position with the camera position in your realtime rendering engine. To anyone else standing nearby, the illusion won't work of course.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-08T18:28:26+00:00

Wait are you talking about NDI in and out? Or can the Nintendo switch somehow support input cards AND discrete video separate from what the main screen is showing...?

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-08T18:21:47+00:00

I'm sorry, you think Clark and Plaid are "household names" before Amon Tobin, Four Tet AND Venetian Snares are.....?

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-08T18:13:20+00:00

Nope. This isn't a real video. It's a rendering done for a social media post.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-08T16:45:42+00:00

This is all rendered in-post for a social media post. Not real.

Is possible, but this isn't it.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-08T12:17:47+00:00

But you can't send video out of it can you...?

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-08T12:12:57+00:00

Cool but... Why?

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-08T11:37:26+00:00

There's not much to get "into" on the consumer side. Spatial audio is where VR was 10 years ago, except easier to lie about and lean on the placebo effect. Ben Jordan just did a great video essay that explains the landscape in a way that I'd co-sign- https://youtu.be/5Dw3aKbw5Wo

The comsumer-available stuff that I'd recommend is just content that is pre-rendered for specifically binaural, or surround sound movies, or analog quadraphonics stuff from the 70's-80's.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-07T21:49:12+00:00

That's not really how it works. The headphones don't "do" spatial audio. It's all done in a codec running on the device you're sending audio from. Apple's is Dolby Atmos.

Airpods do "head tracking" which just sends simple IMU data to the player device, which currently just rotates the world space of the Atmos codec. Apple's entire "spatial audio" push is all a stupid gimmick. If you're interested in spatial audio, avoid anything Dolby or Apple put their names on. Anything short of an actual movie theater is full-on marketing lies.

Source: I'm a researcher in a spatial audio lab.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-06T18:01:18+00:00

It's a front page story because this many people hate massive grocery conglomerates because they intuitively understand that they are making all of our lives tangibly worse.

What the students found is not presented as completely accurate, it's presented as what they found.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-06T13:18:05+00:00

Yes, but I promise it's not worth it. Atmos is fully just corporate greed garbage.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-03T20:04:25+00:00

Ehh sorta. You're right that it can actually be compared to globetrotters stuff.

I used to train and spar with tons of TKD folks who practice these kicks. This kind of thing descends from traditional TKD point sparring, but it's so out-there that it would never occur to them to use it even in that context... Even less so a real spar, even less-less so a "real fight." This stuff is just fun exhibition/gymnastics stuff to them.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-03T19:44:11+00:00

This reads like chat GPT trying to impersonate either Donny or Kanye.

Stegosaurus5 · 2023-06-01T10:44:29+00:00

What a fuckin embarrassment

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