I wonder how much of that was lack of direction and leadership. They had a number of different channels they were exploring which is fine, but they didn't seem to be really focused. I know when we tried to work with them they were losing $8 million a year, but the CEO at the time was getting paid $6 million, so...
https://comotion.uw.edu/startups/microvision/
I think the first end users were supposed to be fighter pilots.