About Miles "stealing" an idea. I have no absolute proof but some reflections:
Throughout the years I have come upon two things:
1. Simultaneously ideas pop up at multiple separate places. The time is just "ripe" for ideas based on what is known at that point in time and the problems encountered.
2. Ideas get "borrowed" in some way or another, sometimes is is outright theft, sometimes it is completely unconciously.
The number of "inventions" that later on are proven to have been thought of earlier, sometimes decades or more, are countless. The thing is, to be frank, the one who actually implements the idea AND successfully markets it is THE "inventor" remembered. The inventions and ideas lying in some desktop drawer somewhere are in a sense meaningless since they didn't come to the awareness of others or to be used.
I have many times noticed that ideas I put forth in discussions may pop up years later from one of the persons listening to me, and they describe it as THEIR idea and frankly BELIEVE it is their idea. Something got into their head, falls down in some vague memory and pops up as a new brilliant idea. For them it is their own idea since they do not even remember where it came from or who planted it. People work that way, not many of us have perfect recall.
I have high respect for any creative person no matter if it is an artist or inventor, BUT I have come to the conclusion that "intellectual property" is just a tool for the big man to crush the little man, and is driven by pure greed. Patents, Copyrights etc are just creating monopoly and hinders true invention, the opposite of what is officially claimed. This is just my opinion.
For Thick8, or whoever feels bad for not getting credit for ideas, I sympathize with that but at the same time - that is life.
I actually created a working prototype for reading fingerprints optically in 1982! When trying to patent it I discovered a vast amount of gadgets that /could/ interfere with such a patent, and without economical muscles you cannot enforce a patent anyway. My invention was put in a drawer... Today my phone has a fingerprint reader, and someone somewhere are making a lot of money, not me. But so what?
I applaud Miles for his drive to make a working product. I will for sure buy one!
I also have had ideas very similar to this to solve my own problems in DCS VR, but I am very glad to let someone else do the work...