Cyberpunk inspired RF vision/hacking headset (Opinions wanted!)

[pommes]

Well, I hope the title caught you

I am currently working on my diploma project in Visual Communication and Programming and I need YOUR help! My goal is to create a platform/framework for signal data visualization (and interaction). In simpler words, it's like thermal/x-ray vision but for signals, powered by an AR/VR headset (or your phone). The signals are mapped in space around you. So my framework would allow spatial visualization of hardware sourced live data (like KrakenSDR), live data from the internet (like flight radar, satellite data) and also visualization of recorded data (like cell tower locations or other databases). The platform will have built-in integrations and a strong API/SDK for integrating your own ideas. For example custom AI powered signal processing, classification or TX applications.

I need to know what the community needs, so I have created a short survey to guide me to the best solutions and ideas. I plan to open source the project when it's ready.

Take the survey

Thanks for your time! Please ask me anything

This is just a small positioning prototype using streetview and cellmapper data:

https://imgur.com/lw0Z4sn

 

[BinaryMode]

You might also want to check out Wi-Fi via the WiGLe API. There's also Bluetooth and Bluetooth low energy...

I looked at the survey but none of it relates to me.

 

[pommes]

You might also want to check out Wi-Fi via the WiGLe API. There's also Bluetooth and Bluetooth low energy...

I looked at the survey but none of it relates to me.

Thanks! I haven't looked at Wifi DBs yet, but this one seems pretty extensive.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

This is "off topic" for what you are designing, but a long while back I had a discussion with a friend of mine who designs top secret laser designators for the military. The idea was a sort of night vision goggles that visualizes the surroundings via bistatic stereoscopic radar. Imagine some goggles paired to two receivers each with its own antenna whip. It would work like your eyes an ears using the ambient RF environment to illuminate objects around you. So cellphone towers, TV towers and other emitters would become the light. The delayed reflection from an object would be-processed and displayed in the goggles. There has been some similar development in a camera that can see through walls into rooms using the WIFI inside.

 

[BinaryMode]

*Quietly turns off AP (Access Point)...*

LOL

All the more reason why I'd rather use Li-Fi.

 

[pommes]

This is "off topic" for what you are designing, but a long while back I had a discussion with a friend of mine who designs top secret laser designators for the military. The idea was a sort of night vision goggles that visualizes the surroundings via bistatic stereoscopic radar. Imagine some goggles paired to two receivers each with its own antenna whip. It would work like your eyes an ears using the ambient RF environment to illuminate objects around you. So cellphone towers, TV towers and other emitters would become the light. The delayed reflection from an object would be-processed and displayed in the goggles. There has been some similar development in a camera that can see through walls into rooms using the WIFI inside.

One of the ideas I wanted to implement was the prediction of possible reflections (multipath) based on the signal origin and satellite images of the environment (to detect buildings, trees). But it could also work the other way around, I could train a model that predicts the environment based on signal reflections🤔.