RE:InterestingSeems like a reasonable assumption at the end of the article. Lots of activity in AI. choice is to try to buy some existing situation or start from scratch and develop your own.
Guess the option chosen would depend on the quality of the available option and the price.
If it was deemed cheaper to 'do it yourself' , then that would be the choice with the other factor being time. buying off the shelf now might still be cheaper since time to develop means potential lost opportunity cost.
Still raises the question - how good is VPT actual product? Free give aways at some key hospitals does provide exposure for specialists to see product in action. Yet we still do not see any real uptake. Given the story these things should be flying off the shelf.
Another question might be 'Are these items impacted by the current 'chip' shortage. Since we are now going to manufacture ourselves is the shortage a problem - Though I guess you need sales to get to that??
GLTA