[Conasg]

I assume they had a research team and five years?

[carlmr]

Sounds like it took 10 years, and probably more people than one research team for that. SW developers are really bad at asking for the right amount of resources.

[GoToRO]

Managers are really bad at hearing the right amount of resources.

[quickthrower2]

We just need a massive open source movement, large tech companies to via weird competitive currents kinda act like open research departments, massive increase in compute power and a lot of hype dollars and a tonne of smart people distributed across the world in different companies and universities, 5 years and a research team please, errrr… boss.

[hughesjj]

To be fair there's been a research app available for over 5 years (launched in 2014, I first used it in 2018/19)

https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/the-story/

Also, from the main article,

> According to Swarovski, the development of the AX Visio took approximately five years,

[harryquach]

> According to Swarovski, the development of the AX Visio took approximately five years, involving around 390 "hardware parts."