I mean … that’s great for outer space. Not so much down here, except in pretty niche applications.

I mean, you’re basically making a data lamp. Hold your phone up to it, get super fast wifi. That’s … niche at best, here on Earth. More refined VR eventually, I suppose?

Could also be useful for internal data transmission inside a chassis where, for whatever reason, a direct physical connection is in t possible.

Yeah, this could be great for clustered computing. I only did software for a supercomputer company a while back so maybe there’s reasons this wouldn’t work, but it seems pretty useful within a rack. It’d probably make people over at [email protected] sad to see those cables go away though.

I don’t really see the advantage over a fibre connection myself.

No wires for line of site. No digging, no runs, no fragile expensive tips, etc. That is if and when it stabilizes as a medium.