I carefully read all the openwater information and patents during a brief period where I was doing work in a similar technical area (brain imaging via simultaneous use of ultrasound + infrared). …But that was like 2017-2018, and I don’t remember all the details, and anyway they may well have pivoted since then. But anyway, people can hit me up if they’re trying to figure out what exactly Openwater is hinting at in their vague press-friendly descriptions, I’m happy to chat and share hot-takes / help brainstorm.
I don’t think they’re aspiring to measure anything that you can’t already measure with MRI, or else they would have bragged about it on their product page or elsewhere, right? Of course, MRI is super expensive and inconvenient, so what they’re doing is still potentially cool & exciting, even if it doesn’t enable new measurements that were previously impossible at any price. But in the context of this post … if I imagine cheap and ubiquitous fMRI (or EEG, ultrasound, etc.), it doesn’t seem relevant, i.e. I don’t think it would make uploading any easier, at least the way I see things.
I carefully read all the openwater information and patents during a brief period where I was doing work in a similar technical area (brain imaging via simultaneous use of ultrasound + infrared). …But that was like 2017-2018, and I don’t remember all the details, and anyway they may well have pivoted since then. But anyway, people can hit me up if they’re trying to figure out what exactly Openwater is hinting at in their vague press-friendly descriptions, I’m happy to chat and share hot-takes / help brainstorm.
I don’t think they’re aspiring to measure anything that you can’t already measure with MRI, or else they would have bragged about it on their product page or elsewhere, right? Of course, MRI is super expensive and inconvenient, so what they’re doing is still potentially cool & exciting, even if it doesn’t enable new measurements that were previously impossible at any price. But in the context of this post … if I imagine cheap and ubiquitous fMRI (or EEG, ultrasound, etc.), it doesn’t seem relevant, i.e. I don’t think it would make uploading any easier, at least the way I see things.