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Looks like Envision is just about done. The post is to long to paste here so if interested go to https://www.letsenvision.com/blog/all-we-had-as-far-as-we-could
Unless Agiga has unlimited amounts of money behind themn, they could eventually suffer from the same fate.
@JohnGassman @pitermach I talked about it in a post; I was suspicious of it even before summer, but I am so optimistic, so I didn't want to think bad just as a principle.
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they ran into a problem that many companies who serve the blind face, they are a small company and when they try and do something that takes a lot of money, they have difficulty surviving. Agiga had better have a lot of money behind them and I know they care about working with the blind. Meta is a huge company but, I don't believe their interest is in helping the blind its nice if they can but, they are out there serving a huge public who don't need the same things in product as would blind people. I'm not interested in Meta at all, look what they have done accessibility wise to Facebook. I might checkout Agiga sometime in the future.
@JohnGassman It's when a small company wants to have big projects with a small niche. It's not matter of blindness or else, but of the quantity of users covering that niche. Like if you say, "translate this software in a language spoken in a small island of the world.
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@JohnGassman @pitermach What this doesn't tell us is a longer list than what it does, in all honesty.
Their silence to those who bought their solos glasses has been going on for months, while people are continuing to buy them. Are all of those people getting refunded? What is happening to that hardware? Are they going to open source it to allow people like myself to modify the glasses so that users can continue to get use out of the tool they bought?
The same thing applies to their older glasses, based on Google glass.