Microsoft to Buy Osterhout Design Group

Last updated on Fri 03/03/2023 - 10:24

Ralph Osterhout is a design genius, visit ODG, great gadgetry, on the military side he invented the PVS-7 and is now working on something called Project X, which is:

X PROJECT: A line of advanced electro-optic binocular and monocular display systems for consumer, industrial and military markets, that integrate radically new technology to be "disruptive" to the marketplace.

Microsoft is said to be offering $200 Million for the whole ball of wax. I was sure that Osterhout was the designer of Google Glass until I saw the guy from Myvu was the chief designer, Myvu, ugh, if Osterhout doesn't come up with something better than that I'd be very very very surprised, disruptive, huh, Google his talk on HMD and A/R to see where his thinking goes, very interesting. On the other hand Ralph was the guy who killed the HMD for Land Warrior as General Issue so, who knows what he has in store. But Microsoft is stealing a march with this acqusition on other HMD competitors down the road.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/20/microsoft-osterhout/