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Microvision's No Show Hands the Pico Projector Market to TI

Competition is good; it keeps the process honest.

In this case the consumer will eventually decide the best product in terms of availability, quality and price. If TI's pico is first to market and is eventually eclipsed by MVIS' product, in terms of projection quality and focus wheel issues, the consumer will recognize that too. My sense is that picture quality is an acceptabe trade-off for mobility, compactness and cost.

What's not an acceptable trade-off is a cumbersome focus wheel. If we've learned anything from Apple, its that if a mobile device is going to be cool, it must be easy to operate. The focus wheel will be tolerable until MVIS' cooler pico is brought to market, then it crashes.

So thanks Liam for the good research and hopefully it'll bring the price of MVIS down so we can accululate more at a better price.