Show HN: We made a Meta Quest3 see through walls
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·February 23, 2025latexr
sleepingreset
sorry, did not realize
Philpax
I understand that this was meant to be a retelling of how the build process went and what happened afterwards, but it seems quite light on the actual results? I would have liked to see a video demonstrating how well it lets the user see through walls!
moritonal
"We didn’t qualify for the standard prizes — perhaps spending only 30 seconds on our presentation and lacking a live-demo setup had killed our chances."
Philpax
That's the result of the competition, but what I want is a demonstration of the actual project: in an uncongested area, take a video of someone walking behind a wall and demonstrate that you can still locate them.
sleepingreset
working on v2.0!! realizing how it comes across now. Oculus link does not allow for recording & we have a shitty mp4 in a google drive of it working thru a phone camera. Left this out because there wasn't time to compile. Just pasted everything into the medium blog. Rather than re-write, since we all flew home & separated the parts, I'm working on a souped up version w/ friends. We're designing a new pcb in kicad & just want to get something cleaner out. Happy to email an actual video though if you care to see the blurry pov
realty_geek
Such a great project!! I suppose it is not getting many comments because it is such a niche concept.
I think the HN algo rewards posts with a high points to comments ratio anyway which is a good thing in this case.
forrestthewoods
It would get more comments if there was a video or screenshot or literally anything that shows the output of their project…
meindnoch
There's no proof that it actually works.
sleepingreset
see other comment on this thread. v2 soon :) will also repost with FOSS tutorial since i didn't realize rules of show hn. my apologies /gen
Dlooooloo
I didn't comment or read it yesterday because it sounds click baity.
Now I read it and find it weird. The core detail how 2 small noisy wifi chips would achieve a 90% detection rate is completely unexplained.
The amount of data they get is minimal too, sounds more like voodoo than real
ekianjo
This post is very light on actual demonstation of results.
EDEdDNEdDYFaN
cool shit
> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.
That’s the first line of the Show HN rules.
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
This is just a blog post, and thus a regular submission and explicitly off-topic for Show HN. Everyone clicking on this will be disappointed, as demonstrated by the comments so far. There isn’t even a video for us to see the effect.