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]
ODG's developer website was at developer.osterhautgroup.com.[3]
Products[edit]
- X-2 - LCOS[4]
- X-3 - LCOS[4]
- X-5 - LCOS[4]
- ODG R-6[5]
- ODG R-7
- R-7HL (for hazardous locations)[6]
- ODG R-8 (Cancelled)
- ODG R9 (Cancelled)
Company chronicle[edit]
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.[7][2][8]
There were companies that made offers to buy ODG, including Magic Leap, Facebook, Razer, and Lenovo.[8]
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.[7][8]
References[edit]
- ↑ "System Overview". https://web.archive.org/web/20160811164640if_/http://www.osterhoutgroup.com/system.
- ↑ 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/.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150130074137if_/http://developer.osterhoutgroup.com:80/
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "ODG 4K Augmented Reality Review, better than HoloLens ?". 2024-03-06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVhF3ai44Xo.
- ↑ Williams, Matt (2015-01-10). "Beyond Glass: ODG Sixth-Generation Smartglasses". https://www.herox.com/blog/157-beyond-glass-odg-sixth-generation-smartglasses.
- ↑ "R-7HL Smartglasses". 2017-04-12. http://osterhoutgroup.com/products-r7HL.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "AR Glasses Pioneer ODG Is Gone" https://web.archive.org/web/20200814224151if_/https://vrroom.buzz/vr-news/business/ar-glasses-pioneer-odg-gone
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 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/.