We respect their decision, and wish the winning proposals success.

I would like to thank all consortium members for their kind efforts.

Good News
The GR consortium will downsize and continue to pursue the
extraordinary market opportunity of the Galileo-Radar project.
I will use this opportunity to announce the recent successful results of trials made by Sonarion a valued GR consortium member. Sonarion is challenging the very difficult issue of identifying the GR user head and gaze orientation.

Precise head tracking is a key to a successful and rewarding user experience using our GR device. Sonarion is examining a novel algorithm that fuses 3 different sensors for head tracking. Optical, Inertial and magnetic, where each sensor compensates for errors made by the other sensors.

Impact on Galileo-Radar (GR)

GR will eventually be integrated into common mobile devices like cell phones. GR will display information on see-through eye glasses. The Motorola news enhances GR display options. The possibility to project images cupled with projection direction sensing, enables GR to display information, related to the direction the device is pointing at, in a large format.

Example - you point your GR cell phone at a restaurant you see out your car window. The GR pico projector will display information related to that location on the window. The information will seem to be super imposed over that restaurant. The information might be face pictures of your friends that are in that restaurant right now.

 …read more at Gizmodo the gadget guide 

…and more at neoseeker

…the press release at Yahoo finance

Impact on Galileo-Radar (GR)

GR will have a significant role in the emerging trend and market drive for social networking and “friend finding” applications.

GR is different in the following ways:

1.GR points to the direction the “friend”, eliminating the need to look at a map. On the Sprint-Nextel system you can only see locations on a map.

2. GR is not limited to “registered friends”. GR will enable finding new friends with similar interests. Sprint-Nextel system is limited to registered friends.

3. GR will not rely on cell phone communication but rather on WiMax, reducing costs dramatically. Sprint-Nextel service costs a monthly fee of $2-$3 plus Internet access time used.

4. GR will alert automatically when a friend is within proximity. Sprint-Nextel requires the user to set up communication, access the Internet, access the application, and look at a map. 

…read more at Mashable - social networking news

U.S. says to reach GPS-Galileo agreement this week

The United States and the European Union, (according to Reuters, July 17) are close to signing an agreement that would allow their satellite navigation systems to work together to provide more accurate  information.

Under the agreement, both EU and U.S. satellites would send information on the same radio frequency, enabling receivers to get signals from both systems and combine the data.

Impact on Galileo-Radar (GR)
1. GR will benefit from this agreement, where one GR reciever will be able to pick up signals from both systems.
2. 30 US-GPS combined with 30 EU-Galileo satellites will enable accuracy never befor possible.
3. The EU-Galileo  satellites orbit lower than the US-GPS enabling a better coverage in urban areas. 

…read more  at Reuters

Based on the latest standard IEEE 802.16e-2005, the new radio network will use the 3.4 – 3.6 GHz frequency band. It will enable professional and residential subscribers alike to connect to broadband Internet in fixed and nomadic environments.

“This first WiMAX reference in France confirms Alcatel-Lucent’s commitment to this technology, which is at the core of our universal broadband access strategy. It shows moreover that we are devoting the best of our R&D resources to satisfy our customers in France and throughout the world.”

Impact on Galileo-Radar (GR)

The emerging trend of deploying WiMax 802.16e in Europe has a significant impact on the way the Galileo-Radar Personal Device (GR-PD) will communicate with the Galileo-Radar Social Network Arena (GR-SNA). WiMax means Internet broadband, and the the 802.16e standard means Mobile-WiMax. GR will benefit from Broadband Mobile Internet meaning - allways connected, allways communicating, allways on.

The GR-PD client application will be able to transmit information to the GR-SNA server, from time to time, without the need for the user to start a communication session as is demanded today with GPRS cell phone applications. Most of the GR communication will be Machine to Machine (M2M) with out the need of any involvement on behalf of the user.

…read more at Alcatel-Lucent

Physical location and orientation data will be one of several keys to information technology business growth in the next several years
says market-research firm Gartner Inc. (GR is all about location and orientation in real world social networking context)

It will be consumer-driven innovation that continues to move. (GR is all about consumer driven in business-consummer networking context)

Within five years, what Gartner terms “augmented reality” (GR head up display is all about augmented reality where information is super imposed over real world objects) will be one of the consumer-driven innovations. Augmented reality, used for many years in niche applications,  provides an overlay of relevant digital information by automatically sensing the physical location and orientation of the user. (GR basics)  Routine availability of location-based sensing and augmented reality will lead to new enterprise applications that are location- and context-sensitive, Gartner says.

“In the emerging world of ‘permanent beta’ innovation led by Web-native companies such as Google, the dominant approach is to throw a new capability out to potential users, see what they do with it, then figure out how to monazite it,” Fenn said. “This fertile breeding ground enables a raw idea to be refined rapidly. (GR will use the spiral development method, described in the D2-Golantech document)

The areas where most innovation will occur will be those relevant to individuals and small workgroups, including personal productivity, communications and social networking. (GR, GR and again GR)

Next Three Years:
Web Platforms—the use of Web-based application services will start in the area of personal productivity,  and spread to enterprise applications. (GR Arena for web based services) Just as “mashups” use third-party data, (GR Meshup as described in D2-Sonarion) presentation and development tools to create original functionality, enterprises will increasingly benefit from the data and application services provided by nontraditional enterprise providers. (GR vision of recurring revenue as described in D0-Galileo-Radar).

Community Communication Platforms—enterprise users have been accustomed to communicating through private channels, such as telephone, e-mail or IM, and attempts to move to a shared collaboration space have, for the most part, failed. Highly successful consumer community sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, and Cyworld, operate under the opposite assumption—that postings and communications are public and visible by default, unless you specify otherwise. (GR arena and concept of GR social and business networking)  In the collaboration space, the migration of alternate operating assumptions such as these will be as important as specific functionality.

Five Years Plus:
Augmented Reality—As discussed previously, location-based sensing and augmented reality that are just now developing in the consumer space will spread to enterprise applications such as location- and context-sensitive information. (GR in five years)

Gartner predictions are a tremendous back wind to the GR vision.
…read more at GPS World

Impact on Galileo-Radar (GR)
It is clear that Galileo-Radar will operate in a hot market. GR consortium is working on patenting several novel innovations, but GR will have to licensee several patents owned by third party companies.

…read more at GPS Business News

…read the patent at US Patent Office