Be assured, as was stressed before on the list, that an Optacon III is an
improved best of the R1D and the II, and its defaults are simple optacon
mode. Anything else the user can turn off or on as wished settings, as with
any other device. Personally, I like this stand-alone machine which looks
suspiciously like a refined optacon II, but Noel has good points; a modular
unit might in its strange way satisfy all concerned. I say "fat domino"
because this is the shape of the display itself which seems most promising
and is used.
The programming and electronics for the basic optacon III functions are
straightforward enough that I wonder if it really need be complicated by
being built atop a mobile operating system. One could simply have available
the various calls for the display, functions, camera, the board's
architecture, etc, and work with it from that perspective. If I am
incorrect, someone Please correct me.
Chuck
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From: Kathryn AfarianAfarian
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 7:44 AM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: a question regarding the ergonomic design and
mechanics of the optacon III
Catherine has said this perfectly.
Sent from my iPad
On Dec 20, 2016, at 12:21 AM, Catherine Thomas <braille@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:to view the list archives, go to:
The Optacon I want will have the best features of the R1D and the Optacon
II. I personally don't want it to speak, make coffee, or pre-scan and
interpret pages. If the Optacon III does additional things, fine, as long
as it also does what an Optacon is supposed to do--help a human brain (not
a computer brain) read print material (even with missing letters or other
defacements) in real time. Perhaps other features and additional software
could be made modular. The ability to use the Optacon to read computer
screens, a camera to fit into tight spacees, a better read on colors other
than black and white and the ability to read cell phone, CD palyer, and
other displays are the improvements that interest me most.
An Optacon will never be for everyone because it will take patience and
commitment to use in a technical age that values bells and whitles that
provide instant gratification. The primary idea behind a new Optacon is to
keep the technology available to those who need to read music, foreign
languages, architectural schematics, some hand-written or hand-printed
material, cans and bottles, appliance surfaces,
and all the other things that only the Optacon can do now.
In my opinion TeleSensory made a mistake by not pursuing the
sscreen-reading software aspect of the Optacon II. Most people who bought
the Optacon II didn't even know there was screen-reading software. Imagine
if advancements and improvements could have been made to that software so
that Windows screens could have been more easily read. The Optacon II
would have been marketable for sure. As it was I used the Optacon II as my
screen-reader for about six years.
In summary, avoid the temptation to produce a device that does circus
tricks and keep your eyes on the prize--a working real time print reader.
Catherine
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