Osterhout Design Group
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Osterhout Design Group is a company that has made smartglasses.
Its website was osterhoutgroup.com.[1]
Its founder was Ralph Osterhout.[2]
It was located in San Francisco.[2]
Products
Company chronicle
Osterhout Design Group did not ship the R-9 or the R-8. It did not fulfill all of its R-7 orders. It ran out of money. ODG sought backing from Chinese firms, but sources say that a negative trade environment made that difficult.[3][2][4]
There were companies that made offers to buy ODG, including Magic Leap, Facebook, Razer, and Lenovo.[4]
Once Magic Leap became controlled by foreign investments, it choked ODG out of existence during the process of having signed an intent letter then backing out.[3][4]
References
- ↑ "System Overview". https://web.archive.org/web/20160811164640if_/http://www.osterhoutgroup.com/system.
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 Craig, Emory (2019-01-14). "That was Fast: Three AR Companies Fail in a Month". https://www.digitalbodies.net/that-was-fast-three-ar-companies-fail-in-a-month/.
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 "AR Glasses Pioneer ODG Is Gone" https://web.archive.org/web/20200814224151if_/https://vrroom.buzz/vr-news/business/ar-glasses-pioneer-odg-gone
- ↑ Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 4.2 Matney, Lucas (2019-01-10). "An AR glasses pioneer collapses". https://web.archive.org/web/20190111070612if_/https%3A//techcrunch.com/2019/01/10/an-ar-glasses-pioneer-collapses/.