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FW: [Tech-VI] From Mathieu Paquette, Product Manager, Humanware: Victor Reader Trek discontinuation.

Rea Lists All Messages By This Member #1111 开云体育 Due apologies to those who have seen this, but thought it worth passing on to this list.? A lot about the Stella Trek - and wouldn't it be good if that incorporated the VR playing features? Ray. From the Tech-VI list owner: Please direct any feedback about this to Humanware and not to me. I am not planning to pass feedback along to Humanware. ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mathieu via groups.io ? Hi everyone, I've seen quite a few messages recently on this topic. I'm sorry I haven't been posting much recently, but it has been quite busy at work, I've been traveling a bit. But rest assured I keep monitoring messages here :) So yes, at the end of 2023, we discontinued the VRTrek. Some of the core components to make the VRTrek were no longer available, and we couldn't keep producing it. A non-negligeable amount of people were buying the VRTrek either only for the Victor (book reading part) because it had more memory and Bluetooth. Some people also bought it only for the GPS portion of it and didn't use the Victor part of it. As such, with the release of the Stream 3 (which fulfilled the more memory and Bluetooth part) and the StellarTrek, sales in the VRTrek declined quite a bit. It wasn't viable for now to consider making a newer version of it. I understand that yes, the StellarTrek is a bit pricier than the VRTrek was. However, it is also much more advanced. The GPS precision on it is much better, and it can do a multitude of AI-assisted things: OCR, address recognition, barcode scanning, color recognition, and soon, pedestrian crossing detection (coming in March), with many more features coming down the road. I understand this doesn't make everyone happy, but we also get great feedback about the Stellar's enhanced capabilities and people who are happy to see a dedicated device back in HumanWare's product lineup. I want to end this by thanking you all for the feedback. The interest and the passion shown by our community is truly something I cherish. Mathieu Paquette Product Manager HumanWare ? ? ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist Marketing Manager, Blazie Technologies (772) 214-1616 ? ? ? If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting ? ? ? Am Yisrael Chai The Nation of Israel Lives! ? ? Subscribe to the Tech-VI announcement list to receive news, events and information regarding the blindness assistive technology field. Email: [email protected] ?
Andrew Summers All Messages By This Member #1113 开云体育 Does that mean that the maps are not going to get updated for it? ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rea Lists Sent: Friday, March 1, 2024 7:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [dap-uk] FW: [Tech-VI] From Mathieu Paquette, Product Manager, Humanware: Victor Reader Trek discontinuation. ? Due apologies to those who have seen this, but thought it worth passing on to this list.? A lot about the Stella Trek - and wouldn't it be good if that incorporated the VR playing features? Ray. ? ? From the Tech-VI list owner: Please direct any feedback about this to Humanware and not to me. I am not planning to pass feedback along to Humanware. ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mathieu via groups.io ? Hi everyone, I've seen quite a few messages recently on this topic. I'm sorry I haven't been posting much recently, but it has been quite busy at work, I've been traveling a bit. But rest assured I keep monitoring messages here :) So yes, at the end of 2023, we discontinued the VRTrek. Some of the core components to make the VRTrek were no longer available, and we couldn't keep producing it. A non-negligeable amount of people were buying the VRTrek either only for the Victor (book reading part) because it had more memory and Bluetooth. Some people also bought it only for the GPS portion of it and didn't use the Victor part of it. As such, with the release of the Stream 3 (which fulfilled the more memory and Bluetooth part) and the StellarTrek, sales in the VRTrek declined quite a bit. It wasn't viable for now to consider making a newer version of it. I understand that yes, the StellarTrek is a bit pricier than the VRTrek was. However, it is also much more advanced. The GPS precision on it is much better, and it can do a multitude of AI-assisted things: OCR, address recognition, barcode scanning, color recognition, and soon, pedestrian crossing detection (coming in March), with many more features coming down the road. I understand this doesn't make everyone happy, but we also get great feedback about the Stellar's enhanced capabilities and people who are happy to see a dedicated device back in HumanWare's product lineup. I want to end this by thanking you all for the feedback. The interest and the passion shown by our community is truly something I cherish. Mathieu Paquette Product Manager HumanWare ? ? ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist Marketing Manager, Blazie Technologies (772) 214-1616 ? ? ? If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting ? ? ? Am Yisrael Chai The Nation of Israel Lives! ? ? Subscribe to the Tech-VI announcement list to receive news, events and information regarding the blindness assistive technology field. Email: [email protected] ? ?
Rea Lists All Messages By This Member #1114 开云体育 Don't know if the maps will be updated but in due course maybe Mathieu will reply to this question. Ray. On 01/03/2024 04:42 pm, Andrew Summers via groups.io wrote: toggle quoted message Show quoted text Does that mean that the maps are not going to get updated for it? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rea Lists Sent: Friday, March 1, 2024 7:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [dap-uk] FW: [Tech-VI] From Mathieu Paquette, Product Manager, Humanware: Victor Reader Trek discontinuation. ? Due apologies to those who have seen this, but thought it worth passing on to this list.? A lot about the Stella Trek - and wouldn't it be good if that incorporated the VR playing features? Ray. ? ? From the Tech-VI list owner: Please direct any feedback about this to Humanware and not to me. I am not planning to pass feedback along to Humanware. ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mathieu via groups.io ? Hi everyone, I've seen quite a few messages recently on this topic. I'm sorry I haven't been posting much recently, but it has been quite busy at work, I've been traveling a bit. But rest assured I keep monitoring messages here :) So yes, at the end of 2023, we discontinued the VRTrek. Some of the core components to make the VRTrek were no longer available, and we couldn't keep producing it. A non-negligeable amount of people were buying the VRTrek either only for the Victor (book reading part) because it had more memory and Bluetooth. Some people also bought it only for the GPS portion of it and didn't use the Victor part of it. As such, with the release of the Stream 3 (which fulfilled the more memory and Bluetooth part) and the StellarTrek, sales in the VRTrek declined quite a bit. It wasn't viable for now to consider making a newer version of it. I understand that yes, the StellarTrek is a bit pricier than the VRTrek was. However, it is also much more advanced. The GPS precision on it is much better, and it can do a multitude of AI-assisted things: OCR, address recognition, barcode scanning, color recognition, and soon, pedestrian crossing detection (coming in March), with many more features coming down the road. I understand this doesn't make everyone happy, but we also get great feedback about the Stellar's enhanced capabilities and people who are happy to see a dedicated device back in HumanWare's product lineup. I want to end this by thanking you all for the feedback. The interest and the passion shown by our community is truly something I cherish. Mathieu Paquette Product Manager HumanWare ? ? ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist Marketing Manager, Blazie Technologies (772) 214-1616 ? ? ? If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting ? ? ? Am Yisrael Chai The Nation of Israel Lives! ? ? Subscribe to the Tech-VI announcement list to receive news, events and information regarding the blindness assistive technology field. Email: [email protected] ? ?

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