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Luckily enough I have just finished my PhD on optical wireless receivers. While it is truly fascinating, I think it's fundamentally over-hyped as a technology and I doubt it'll ever replace conventional RF communications.

I have issues with 802.11bb - I feel like the old guard of ex-RF engineers are trying to force OFDM as the technology to be used, when it realistically makes more sense to use OOK as it is operating at baseband (some members of the board have even published papers showing that it shouldn't use OFDM!). Overall it feels like a political statement of saying "we now have OWC standards!" when the technology is fundamentally flawed and likely will never materialise for end users.