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I am pursuing a PhD in indoor localization, and UWB is still far superior. That is the reason why major phone companies still include a UWB chip and are not switching to BLE 6.0.
I have compared them, and because BLE is a narrowband signal, it is highly susceptible to Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) conditions compared to UWB.
I also attended a prototype presentation by a large European silicon company. I noticed that even in their demo, BLE did not achieve 30 cm accuracy, but rather hovered around 1 m.
I have only tested PBR and RTT ranging with a simple Kalman Filter, so maybe someone has found a clever combination of these data sources (I hope).
Companies are doing some crazy stuff to block other devices. One of the worst things that I have seen is that on MacOS you cannot use the AirPods in a Microsoft Teams call.
Spatial AI will for sure be a thing, I am not sure if will be next frontier.
The main problem that I still see is: we are not able to fully understand how much can we scale the current models. How much data do we need? Do we have the data for this kind of training? Can the current models generalize the world?
Probably before seeing something really interesting we need another AI winter, where researchers can be researcher and not soldiers of companies.
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