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Osterhout Shows New Self-Contained AR Glasses

June 9, 2015 By Dan Rosenbaum

Osterhout Shows New Self-Contained AR Glasses

The Osterhout Design Group used to be a very quiet pioneering company in the world of augmented reality, until it cut a still-mysterious licensing and patent deal with Microsoft. The money seems to have gotten over its reticence; at Augmented World Expo today, the company announced a new and self-contained augmented reality goggle, the R7. Calling it a "goggle" really … [Read more...]

Techcrunch: Osterhout/Microsoft Deal Was for IP, Cost Up To $150 Million

March 28, 2014 By Dan Rosenbaum

Way back in September, we wrote about a report that Microsoft was talking to the secretive Osterhout Design Group about buying the company and its portfolio of wearables patents for $200 million. Techcrunch managed to get a very rare interview with Ralph Osterhout, who says he sold a portfolio of patents and not his entire company; another source put the value of the deal at … [Read more...]

WSJ: Microsoft Testing Wearables Prototypes

October 23, 2013 By Dan Rosenbaum

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is testing wearables prototypes not unlike Google Glass. Faithful readers will not be surprised by this; we reported on Sept. 20 that Microsoft was spending $200 million to spur their efforts in that direction. The Osterhout purchase, along with the $7 billion acquisition of Nokia, would suggest that they're pretty serious … [Read more...]

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