<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Chad,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">You wrote:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> ..</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">strangely it [new Optacon] would be difficult, even in our modern era to duplicate this highly unique machine.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The camera and image processing (hardware and software) could probably be implemented with a well defined development project. But the real difficulty is the matching high speed, with high resolution, tactile display. Is this how you understand the situation?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In the meantime, here is an interesting perspective involving the Optacon:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'The Reading Machine That Hasn't Been Built Yet'<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Harvey Lauer March 2003</div></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://www.afb.org/aw/4/2/14857">https://www.afb.org/aw/4/2/14857</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Best,</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Keith</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 2:22 PM Chad Allen via Tactile-Talk <<a href="mailto:tactile-talk@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">tactile-talk@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">The new Optacon was actually my project. Noel was providing his amazing insight to help me along. I have all the pieces in place to make it happen. I just need funding. That's what stopped the project in its tracks.<div>I have the plans, the team, and legally the ability to do it, but sadly, money is often the barrier to entry. </div><div>I also strongly believe Optacon has advantages that the other graphic displays don't, but it needs to be modernized. Noel was an open book and told me everything he knew about its development that I could understand, and strangely it would be difficult, even in our modern era to duplicate this highly unique machine. If there are angel investors out there that wish to discuss this with me further, I'm happy to share my story with the Optacon. </div><div>My best, </div><div>Chad </div><div><br id="m_4920687652604332723m_4162150647339326799lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">As seen on Penn and Teller: Fool Us<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCcA5gR0DSI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCcA5gR0DSI</a></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 20, 2024, at 10:58, dan.tevelde--- via Tactile-Talk <<a href="mailto:tactile-talk@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">tactile-talk@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal">I’m changing the subject line to reflect Chad’s message and his mentioning of an optacon. Welcome Chad to the list. I recently got a an optacon but need to re-learn how to use it. I wish there was a new optacon which would take advantage of today’s technology. I’ve run into situations where I needed to know the print equivalent of a Braille symbol. I was talking with a sighted person who kept inconsistently using the terms bracket and brace. He described what they looked like visually but that didn’t mean anything to me. The emerging graphics displays are beyond my budget. I’m subscribed to an optacon list where we have occasionally talked about developing a new optacon. Unfortunately, the person driving the project just died. His name was Noel Runyan. Another reason an optacon would be helpful is when the primary and secondary relationships in a table change. If I run into a situation like that when I scan something with a phone, VoiceOver incorrectly reads the data because the hierarchy has changed. It will read the left column before reading the right column. With an optacon, a person could manually pan a camera and read data in whatever order they wanted. When one of the main developers of the optacon, James Bliss was still alive, I wrote him an extensive proposal of how I thought a new optacon could work.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Dan<u></u><u></u></p></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Tactile-Talk mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Tactile-Talk@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">Tactile-Talk@nfbnet.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/tactile-talk_nfbnet.org" target="_blank">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/tactile-talk_nfbnet.org</a></span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Tactile-Talk:</span><br><span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/tactile-talk_nfbnet.org/chadallenmagic%40me.com" target="_blank">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/tactile-talk_nfbnet.org/chadallenmagic%40me.com</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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