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Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed (www.theregister.com)

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[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 85 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

We expect to see Wi-Fi devices able to detect the distance to other devices that are nearby, not only the distance, but what is the direction to those devices, with the ability to become a sensor to detect distance, to detect the presence of people, to detect gestures," Cordeiro claimed.

"Essentially what we are doing is that we're going to be able to make devices be context aware, aware of their surroundings, and that's going to enable and open up the ability for new applications to be developed," he added.

Yay. Granular tracking. Exactly what we were asking for with a WIFI protocol.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

cool, so now I have to turn off wifi when I leave the house.

oh wait, I already do that.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

I haven't kept up with the newer wifi's, but isn't this just beaming foaming+

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Feature proposed by China and US, I'd say.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Russia's making wifi illegal instead...

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago

They are waiting for Wi-Fi 8 :)