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start [2022/04/13 09:42] – [What is Vector?] xanathonstart [2022/04/13 11:39] – [What is Vector?] xanathon
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 At the end of 2019 [[https://www.digitaldreamlabs.com/|Digital Dream Labs]] (DDL) bought the rights for Vector, it's predeccessor Cozmo und the toy racing system Anki Overdrive. DDL also took over the cloud services and keeps them running and they did a very successful [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitaldreamlabs/vector-unleashed?lang=de|crowdfunding via Kickstarter]] to expand Vectors possibilities and to provide users and coders with additional options in the future (since Vector depends on cloud server access you will need to buy a subscription from DDL, you could get lifetime access via the Kickstarter, but that is over since mid-march 2020. <del>You still are able to buy lifetime access on their [[https://www.digitaldreamlabs.com/pages/post-kickstarter|official website]] for a limited time).</del> At the end of 2019 [[https://www.digitaldreamlabs.com/|Digital Dream Labs]] (DDL) bought the rights for Vector, it's predeccessor Cozmo und the toy racing system Anki Overdrive. DDL also took over the cloud services and keeps them running and they did a very successful [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitaldreamlabs/vector-unleashed?lang=de|crowdfunding via Kickstarter]] to expand Vectors possibilities and to provide users and coders with additional options in the future (since Vector depends on cloud server access you will need to buy a subscription from DDL, you could get lifetime access via the Kickstarter, but that is over since mid-march 2020. <del>You still are able to buy lifetime access on their [[https://www.digitaldreamlabs.com/pages/post-kickstarter|official website]] for a limited time).</del>
  
-It is now april 2022 and two years after the successful crowdfunding on Kickstarter most of the promises DDL made are not reality. Escape Pod is in a state I would describe as "beta" and it still is missing functions as knowledge graph and weather. With the latest update they even broke their own extension engine that made it possible to interface with it. Since they do not provide documentation or changelogs worth the name, 3rd party developers have a hard time adapting their apps to DDL's changes. OSKR, the **O**pen **S**ource **K**it for **R**obots, is in a very sorry state with nearly no updates for over a year and documentation is nearly nonexistent. The new firmwares 1.7 and 1,8 removed sounds the users loved and created problems, for example that Vecor has a way harder time to find back to his charger than with 1.6. The SDK was never updated by DDL for the new firmwares. Vector 2.0, an updated version of the robot with a better camera and changeable battery, could be preordered since end of 2020 and should have been delivered in may 2021. It is nowhere to be seen until today (april 12th 2022, nearly a year later, no delivery date) because of multiple problems that should have been solved during the QA process. So it is true to say that Digital Dream Labs underperformed and underperforms in almost every aspect regarding Vector.+It is now april 2022 and two years after the successful crowdfunding on Kickstarter [[https://vector.thedroidyouarelookingfor.info/2022/04/05/vector-the-real-state-of-robotics/|most of the promises DDL made are not reality]]. Escape Pod is in a state I would describe as "beta" and it still is missing functions as knowledge graph and weather. With the latest update they even broke their own extension engine that made it possible to interface with it to provide missing functionality via external means. Since they do not provide documentation or changelogs worth the name, 3rd party developers have a hard time adapting their apps to DDL's changes. OSKR, the **O**pen **S**ource **K**it for **R**obots, is in a very sorry state with nearly no updates for over a year and documentation is nearly nonexistent. The new firmwares 1.7 and 1,8 removed sounds the users loved and created problems, for example that Vecor has a way harder time to find back to his charger than with 1.6. The SDK was never updated by DDL for the new firmwares. Vector 2.0, an updated version of the robot with a better camera and changeable battery, could be preordered since end of 2020 and should have been delivered in may 2021. It is nowhere to be seen until today (april 12th 2022, nearly a year later, no delivery date) because of multiple problems that should have been solved during the QA process. So it is true to say that Digital Dream Labs underperformed and underperforms in almost every aspect regarding Vector.
  
 Personally I do not think this is a scam, I think it's incompentence and a team that is way too small to manage all of Anki's legacies. Personally I do not think this is a scam, I think it's incompentence and a team that is way too small to manage all of Anki's legacies.
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