R3 Official Release

I would like to know when the R3 would be officially released. Its been years from Yio to Unfolded Circle that no remote has been officially released and generally available. It seems like it would never, never, ever, ever, ever be released. So I am asking when would the Unfolded Circle R3 be officially released and generally available?

Orders from the R3 Kickstarter campaign will be shipped from march. This also includes people that signed up for the R2 waiting list and decided to back the R3. They will get prioritized in the shipping process.
You can still order a Remote 3 through Kickstarter and will receiver it some time after all backers got theirs.
As this is just a community forum you most likely not get an official answer here when or if the R3 will be available to purchase outside of Kickstarter. I guess UC first needs to make enough profit to produce remotes on stock without any prepayment like they get with Kickstarter.

Will that ever happen?

I’m guessing most of the Kickstarter pledge money has gone into producing the R3 and software development.

It was mentioned that the R2 is core-wise similar to the R3. Lots of software for the R3 could work for the R2. New software developments for the R3 could also apply to the R2. Focus is currently on the R3 and R2 is not deprecated. This is my understanding. Correct if I am wrong.