While 'substantive' would mean major progress within the current framework, I’m predicting a shift that subverts the current foundational assumptions of robotics.
Right now, we treat time as a secondary sequence—an 'add-on' to 3D space. Moving to a unified spacetime architecture isn't just a big improvement; it fundamentally undermines the discrete-frame logic that almost all current CV and RL models are built upon. It’s 'subversive' because it requires us to unlearn the way we’ve been processing motion for the last decade.
I could not figure out a way to painlessly gather this info without monitoring users' emails (privacy nightmare) or having users forward emails to the app (too painful/not conducive to user adoption). But if anyone has any ideas how to get around that?
About the login, SSO is nice and it will probably be an option, but I heavily prefer good old email+password. It might be trickier, haven't explored SSO before.
The auth/central server will be open source of course, and I'm hoping I could get feedback/auditing that way if anything's wrong (even tho I feel like the process is simple with encryption libs and knowledge). At first it will be heavily experimental and will hold just dummy data and then gradually go from there if it works out.
I don't think obtaining authentication data is useful; it's better to use it for collecting data on functional experiences.