More News from Ugobe – Pleo Gets Vision
All of you that have signed up on Ugobe’s website to receive updates probably received an email late this afternoon. For those of you that didn’t, I’ll fill you in on some of the juicy tidbits.
First off, Ugobe “officially” announced that it’s pushing back the relase date of Pleo untill March (hopefully).
Secondly, the stated reason is so that they can continue to make Pleo life-like and fluid in his motions.
At Ugobe, we are committed to making Pleo absolutely right. In pursuit of this goal, we have added upgrades to Pleo’s basic design (i.e. Pleo now has a camera, upgraded CPU and microprocessors, more powerful motors and quieter custom designed gears).
I added that bold. Yep. Looks like Pleo now has a camera! The question is, without having any external buttons or a hook-up to the internet, what’s he going to do with it?
They also announced they’re doing a market survey to collect more data. I’ve contacted Ugobe about linking to the survey on this site, so stay tuned if you didn’t get a link.
They survey asked a lot of questions about how we learned about Ugobe, and Pleo. Interestingly, there were also quite a few questions about whether we thought Pleo was more suited for a girl or a boy, and what age groups were the most appropriate. They also asked how much we thought we’d interact with Pleo (a few hours a day, a few minutes, none at all, etc.), and they asked what other life-forms we’d like to see Ugobe make.
All in all, I’m still pretty excited about Pleo. I’m very curious about the camera though. What do you think? I’m also a bit concerned about all the questions regarding age groups and gender markets – it makes me a bit concerned that Ugobe hasn’t really figured out who it’s targeting.
What do you think?
