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Hello All,
I see that our update regarding WiFi has raised some concern. Please let me address that and talk a little about how we are going to implement that functionality.
Firstly, I'd like to assuage any fears that we are only now working on WiFi. We have been developing that feature for some time now, and it has been working great. We believe wireless connectivity is a huge step up from USB. The software team has video coming in over the air and it is working flawlessly. When we started this project we were a little concerned about the power usage over WiFi, but as it turns out it really isn't bad at all. Getting video in over the wireless connection and processing it is only taking up a small amount of CPU usage on the iPhones that we have been developing with.(I'll see about compiling some stats and averages soon)
As for how WiFi will work: The Imager acts as a wireless access point, so you won't need to be near your home WiFi or any other hot spot. So the imager can be used anywhere without difficulty. You'll simply connect to your camera's individual network and you have video. This process will be slightly different depending on the device you are using to connect to your camera, but our software will be released with clear instructions built in. This type of adhoc networking is what we believe will work best for everyone. WiFi Direct would have been great, but that standard hasn't been adopted by a vast majority of device manufacturers yet so we decided to go with adhoc instead, as any device with WiFi will work with that methodology.
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