As you may have already heard, I’m pleased to tell you that we more than made our target of 200 interested people and the software is definitely being released. I’m doing a staged release in order to have something out ASAP and avoiding having the whole thing stuck at 95% ready and not getting out there because of my need to feed my family and other animals!
I’m hoping to get stage one (Beta version) out by the end of January. This is likely to include the basics, it may not have the rider analysis in it yet, and may not have the more robust features such as correcting for camera movement or look the most beautiful. There may be terms and conditions so that I’m not responsible if you drop a video camera on your foot, feel that your spouse in now neglected etc.
Next release should be in March, and this will include a more polished, user-friendly interface, and whatever changes people have requested that I’ve been able to accommodate.
Specialist releases and updates after that, including an option for the para riders to include limb absence where relevant, and one for cerebral palsy to include bone deformations. Neurological disorders should be covered by the existing releases. Similarly I’ll include some flexibility on the horse side for surgical shoes, tendon lesions etc. with the usual provisos that this is for monitoring your horses, it is not a diagnostic tool. You are, of course, welcome to use results as a part of an investigation, and to show them to clinicians.
I’m keeping Twitter and FB updated for those that read those (http://www.facebook.com/EquineMechanics and https://twitter.com/@equinemechanics) and there’s more info on here under the #freesoftwareproject tag: https://equinemechanics.com/tagged/freesoftwareproject