Hello,
I think that the only chance to start with a new project would be demonstrating
Optacon to big manufacturers like Freedom or Hims or similar. They are all too
young and probably never seen Optacon and a blind person using it, so a good
video could be interesting for them.
Anyone in this list living in the USA has any chance to contact these big
manufacturers?
Marco
Il giorno 10 ago 2020, alle ore 00:30, Carolyn <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha
scritto:
The most effective Optacon demonstration would be, if there
could be a master-slave hookup with a screen display. That
way, people could see for themselves the one-character
display and the proficiency possible with it.
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I think there are several reasons why we are not seeing a
new optacon. So far, Charles Pond has been the only person
as far as I know who has reported on prototyping a new
optacon. If others on the list have been involved in a
project, I don't know about it. In order to develop a new
optacon we need the following items.
The easiest item would be developing some promotional
videos. The videos I have seen on YouTube are out of date.
We need new videos demonstrating the optacon in terms of
tasks which no other device can do. I'm not qualified to
make such a video. I lost my optacon skills because I
didn't have access to a device. It would be great if
someone making the videos would compare the optacon with
some currently-available technology in such as way that the
person watching or listening to the video would understand
what makes the optacon unique. One approach might be
comparing the optacon to an OCR application like KNFB
Reader. Find an example where KNFB Reader or some other OCR
application incorrectly interprets tabular data.
The next steps would be to create social media accounts on
Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. People are using social
media rather than mailing lists to get information. The
word optacon would get lots of search results through search
engine optimization. I see numerous job leads and
connection requests on LinkedIn every day. IF there are
people in this group who are savvy with social media then
they can get started.
The other items we need are formal documents containing use
cases and user data for the current optacon, a possible
specification for a new optacon, and a formal business plan.
A couple of years ago I tested a hardware device which was a
type of mouse to provide tactile feedback and allow the user
to interact with a computer. I thought the device had
potential. The company failed because they had no formal
documentation of how their technology worked or a formal
business plan to request funds for producing the device.
The president of the company thought he could succeed by
begging for money. The project failed for a variety of
reasons and I don't expect anything more from the company
unless they determine what they want to accomplish. I
mention the failure as an object lesson in what should be
avoided.
So this is the situation we are in. It would be a tall
order to develop a new optacon but I don't think it would be
impossible. It takes an organized group of people to
develop a business plan.
Dan
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