Breakthrough Optical Communications Channel Set To Take On Mobile Augmented Reality
Summary
It operates without reliance on the Internet or cellular networks, harnessing infrared light waves to create an independent, optical communications channel with unprecedented power, flexibility and freedom."For years now, it has been our quest to bring free-space optical communications to the consumer," said SureFires Narkis Shatz, Ph.D., program lead and one of the inventors of ARON.Both an alternative and a complement to radio frequency waves—which are used today by smartphones and mobile devices all over the world—ARON transmits data by way of a patented combination of optical beacons and signals.Developed and optimized by SureFire over the course of the last three years, it establishes range, data-rate and miniaturization standards never before achieved in the field of free-space, consumer optical communications.Indeed, ARON makes this visionary technology readily accessible to consumers, businesses and governments for the first time ever—bringing new meaning to the idea of mobile connectivity.