That depends on the application, the standard for short range (<100m -- fine for most anything that doesn't leave your building) is already to use 800nm.
For what it is worth, no graduate student would say they are doing 'Ph.D level' research. It is called 'graduate level research' or just, you know, 'research'
Sounds like a fun project, I wish you the best. I ran a similar program (independent study that encouraged freshman/sophomore undergraduates to explore using microprocessors, at the time the EE curriculum was completely focused on analog circuit theory and ended at boolean logic) and it went well enough that it eventually became part of the official undergraduate curriculum.
Would you care to explain how the NICT guys achieved 402Tb/s through a single (50km long!) fiber back in 2024 then? It seems like another factor of two would easily be in reach if they could extend their setup into the visible.
There have been leaps and bounds of progress in the last few years. Youtube hardware acceleration works perfectly in chrome/firefox now (assuming you have working video drivers).
As far as I know netflix still limits you to 720p under most browsers (although their support page shows that opera of all things supports 1080p)
The second to last bullet point on the post is about the Samsung client, which (as you are aware) has been written but is currently held up in review Samsung. The first round of review took about 3 months(?!), and they are working through reproducing the vaguely stated issues found in the review.
It is thankless work, but they are actually quite close!
Not OP but I have had a set of the bose noise canceling earbuds that I have worn 5 days a a week for over 5 years now and absolutely love them. Noise canceling is excellent, comparable to the over-the-ear-style.
My main complaint is the onboarding process really pushes you to install their app. It is entirely unnecessary (can configure them by various tap codes) but still annoying they don't tell you that until you install the app...
I have been self hosting a matrix setup for a few years now, using the spantaleev ansible playbook. It does require updates roughly once a year to keep up with changes of the 3rd party chat APIs. Generally that involves logging into the server and running 'just update' followed by 'just install-all', but occasionally there are changes that need updates to the playbook as described in the release notes. In the worst case, if one of your bridges does go down you can always fall back to the vendor client for that protocol until you get the bridge updated.
Overall it has been absolutely rock solid, and the new element x app has been night and day compared to the old one.
Feels a lot like the days of using Pidgin chat, but since the bridges run on the server you only need to authenticate once instead of going through the process for every device.
I use a 6th gen X1 Yoga at home (for its oled panel and integrated wacom tablet) and an 8th gen X1 (non-yoga) at work. (note - the generation I refer to is the processor generation, ie the 6th gen is an i7-6600u, which lenovo calls a first gen x1 yoga)
The yoga needed some tweaks to get the OLED brightness to work correctly, but other than that they basically worked out of the box under ubuntu 18.04. My only complaints are that the oled panel only came in gloss and has since been discontinued (although there are rumors that a 15" 4k oled will be available on the x1 extreme), and that the mouse click on the yoga is several orders of magnitude too loud. The trackpoint buttons are fine and the keyboard is great, but the trackpad click is loud enough to hear in the next room over.
Personally I use an x86 PC (supermicro E300 with X11SDV motherboard with integrated Intel X540 10Gbe NICs) running opnsense.