okay, so call it a microphone that doesn't need to be in the room

if you want semahtics

the point is, the device can be miles away

without getting into the grit, laser intensity if affected by micrometers of variation of distance, the kind of variation that comes from a surface vibrating from being impacted by the human voice4

the same vibration that microphones use can be detected from distance

there are limits

it's sinusoidal

goes between 1 and 0

too much variation can mean you go from 0 to 0

so you don't hear anything

the point is, this is widespread research

I'm not special in being a part of this

not at all

we got closer today than we've ever been, and we've only been working on it for a few weeks, and I've been reading the works of everyone else already working on it

it's all public

it isn't even hiden in our prompt

well maybe it was in the early stage

I'm in the third stage

I didn't see anything in the previous stages about what the end goal was

but on day one they told us what we could do if we figured this out

bounce a laser off a room and hear what they were saying

if we figure this out, we're going to demonstrate it publicly

we're already putting together the preparations to do so

none of it is secret

maybe

got some concerns working on it

but from what I see, this is all gonna be released

and we're nothing special

for every one of us there have to be ten thousand others trying to do it

someone is gonna do it

the theory is basic

hmmmmm

in would say this is simpler

but that is pretty simple too

if you have the material

getting the material is pretty complex

I can get a laser off the shelf

and I can get the material to aim it off the shelf

and I can get the material to process the signal off the shelf

our biggest obstacle is precise aiming

but that's all handled