How We Decide on Wish List Ideas

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Owners' ideas shape EchoVision. We weigh every idea on the EchoVision Wish List against the guiding principles below, in order of importance. Community input weighs heavily, but AGIGA makes the final call and explains the reason on each idea.

Guiding principles

  1. A real, unmet need. Favor ideas that solve a recurring task in daily life. If another app, a current EchoVision feature or a simple workaround already handles it easily, it is lower priority. Ideas that help many users come first, but a high-impact need for a smaller group can still win.
  2. Simple controls. Buttons and voice commands are limited. A new feature must earn its place and must not break habits people have built.
  3. Privacy, including bystanders. The camera is on someone's face, so features must respect the privacy of the people around the user.
  4. Works on a weak connection. Features must work on a weak connection or a phone hotspot.
  5. Hardware waits for the next iteration. Software ideas must fit today's battery, heat and weight limits. Hardware ideas are welcome and will be kept on their own list, but none will be acted on until the next hardware iteration.

The baseline for every feature

Safety, reliability and full use without sight are requirements for how anything is built, not ways to rank ideas.