Corporate Overview May 2015 Paul Travers President Vuzix Corp. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Corporate Overview May 2015 Paul Travers President Vuzix Corp. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Corporate Overview May 2015 Paul Travers President Vuzix Corp. NASDAQ: VUZI Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements
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Vuzix Background
- Founded 1997
- Worldwide operations
- Leading supplier of Wearable display technology
- Initial focus US Defense markets
- Cornerstone IP and Patent Portfolio
- 41 patents and 10 patents pending
- Employees
- 38 total with 17 engineering staff
- Award-winning Technology and Design
- Immersive Viewing, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Smart Glasses
- Revolutionary Wearable Display Products for Enterprise and Consumer
- Smart Glasses for Mobility and Video headphones
- Major Shareholders
- Intel Corporation – 24%
- Management – CEO & CFO – 22%
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Wearable Technology – The Revolution is Just Beginning
The market opportunity will be huge:
- ABI Research forecasts the wearable computing device market will grow to 485 million annual device
shipments by 2018
- More than 75 million of these will be wearable display or Smart Glasses, market >$15 billion
Enterprise to adopt First
- Enterprise market for wearables to surpass consumer market, predicts Deloitte’s Consulting
- Good ROIs can be demonstrated in enterprise (productivity of hands free and information access)
- There are millions of field service, warehouse, maintenance and other enterprise users that will benefit
from hands free smart glass solutions
- For Vuzix: Higher gross margins, and less competition
- More open Blue Oceans by not focusing on consumer with
monocular products
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Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses Features – Focused on Enterprise
- Hands-free wearable display, computing & communications platform
- Digital see-through display with 1080p camera
- Earbud & microphone
- Inertial sensors, compass & GPS
- Voice recognition, gesture recognition
- WiFi & Bluetooth
- Safety and prescription glasses mountable
- Based on Android and now Running OS 2.0
with iOS and Android compatibility
- Runs thousands of Android apps
- Vuzix App store launched in Dec. 2014
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Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses Multiple Mounting Options
With support for safety and prescription
Enterprise Applications for Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality
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Real Time, Hands Free, Info on Tap, Image/Video Capture, Scan Code Reading and More…
Vuzix Partners are Some of the Largest Companies in the World
- Intel $25M investment, Lenovo China distribution, SAP for Enterprise
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A Growing List of Industry Leading Customers & Partners
Beginning the Move from Initial Trials to Rolling out Programs
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Examples in field service, warehousing, manufacturing and more….
DHL & RICOH
Vision Picking in Logistics
24,000 parts picked with 25% improvement in efficiency over previous picking methods
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Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses Upgrades Coming
Hardware
- Camera (new faster and better focus)
- Improving audio path circuit
- Adding speaker jack
- Removing SD slot
- 16 gig flash and 32 gig flash now built in
- Optional Thermal Camera (M150)
Software (OS 2.3 Just released)
- Noise cancelling being enabled
- Gesture (Moving to more reliable1D/Select version )
- BT LE enabled
- iOS Support (Including iOS manager)
- Maps (Here) (Optional in Build)
- Higher Level Security
- Honeywell Scanner (Optional)
Vuzix Leading the Industry with the Introduction of IWear 720 Video Headphones
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WINNER OF 4 CES 2015 AWARDS
- Next Gen Video Head Phones
- Think Beats headphone with a 130” hi def. Video experience
- HDMI 3D and streaming WiFi ready
- Designed for PCs, Consoles, Smartphones
- 720P - highest resolution with largest FOV at 57+ degrees (Front row of theater)
- AR & VR Application capable with tracking, audio, microphone, camera
- High precision patent pending optics for gaming to work
- Fully immersive video or VR experience
- Shipping late summer 2015
But, for Mass Market the Smart Glasses Form Factor Needs Improvement
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Carl Zeiss Cinemizer Sony HMZ Epson Moverio Google Glass Kopin Golden-I Oculus Rift
- One of the most frequent questions I get: When will Vuzix finally hire a fashion ID firm?
Well, its not quite that easy
- Conventional refractive and reflective optics simply have limits
- Ultimately a true eyeglass form is needed to gain general consumer acceptance of smart glasses.
First Cell Phone Conventional Optics for Video Viewers & Gaming Conventional Options for Smart Glasses
Vuzix Technology and IP - SOLVES THE PROBLEM
Waveguides (patented) that allow true eyeglass form factors
- Revolutionary way to move light and magnify
- 1.4mm thin so not bulky like conventional optics
- Provides significant improvements in mass, costs and optical
performances. Purpose Built Waveguide Optics for Fashionable Smart Glasses
- New Rochester manufacturing facility operational Fall 2014
- Proprietary Nano-Imprinting for Low Cost Manufacturing
- HD very thin optics with large FOVs
- Easily scalable to mass market levels
Large FOV HD optics (patents pending)
- Revolutionary way magnify HD images to mass screen size
(up to 200” at 10 feet)
- Light, compact, low cost that leverage nano lens arrays
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Conventional Optics Waveguides
Smart Glasses – B Series for Enterprise and Consumer
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- Will deliver on the promise that Google Glass tried to provide
- Vuzix Waveguide based optics
- First binocular fashion-wear smart glasses
- Hands-free operation by voice and gesturing
- Hi resolution displays and 1080p camera
- Designed to support Augmented Reality applications
- True eyeglass styling to “cross the chasm” to the mass market
Technology Evolves: Day in the Life of Cloud Connected You…
http://sidv.co/author/sid/ Images: Siddharth Vanchinathan
Interim Financial Data – 3 Months Ended March 31st
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3 Mths Mar 31, 2015 3 Mths Mar 31, 2014 Total Sales $808 $798 Cost of Sales 558 450 Gross Margin 250 348 Operating Expenses - Cash 1,693 1,222 Operating Loss - Cash
- 1,443
- 874
Stock Based Compensation & Services
- 2,115
- 19
Depreciation and Amortization
- 131
- 100
Interest and Other
- 399
- 70
Gain (Loss) on Derivative Valuation
- 1,003
2,575 Net Income (Loss)
- 5,091
1,512 Earnings (Loss) Per Share
- $0.40
$0.15
Balance Sheet
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Mar 31, 2015 Dec 31, 2014 ASSETS Cash $ 22,884 $ 85 Accounts Receivable 255 383 Inventory & Prepaids 1,397 1,491 Current Assets 24,536 1,959 Net Fixed Asset & Intangibles 1,623 1,741 TOTAL ASSETS 26,160 3,700 Current Liabilities 1,710 3,386 Long-term Debt 1,181 1,179 Derivative Liability – Long-term 175 13,541 Total Liabilities 3,066 18,097 Share Capital 72,346 29,763 (Deficit)
- 49,252
- 44,161
Stockholder’s Equity (Deficit) 23,094
- 14,398
Total Liabilities & Stockholders’ Equity $ 26,160 $ 3,700
Capitalization Table
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Security Average Exercise Price As of May 12, 2015 Common Shares - Outstanding Currently – 15,909,978 Preferred Stock - Series A Convertible (Intel) $5.00 4,962,600 Convertible Debt (excludes accrued interest) $2.25 885,556 Warrants - Outstanding $2.49 590,143 Options - Outstanding $4.41 720,551 Fully Diluted 23,068,828
Recent Corporate and Industry Activity
- Facebook Buys Oculus Rift for $2 billion (March 2014)
- Lenovo signs deal with Vuzix to sell Vuzix-branded M100 Smart
Glasses in China (July 2014)
- Google/Qualcomm invests $542 million for 20% of Magic Leap Inc.
(October 2014)
- SAP launches 3rd enterprise application supporting Vuzix M100
Smart Glasses (October 2014)
- DHL experiences 25% improved efficiency in logistics through use
- f Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses during pilot test (January 2015)
- Google pulls the plug on Glass Explorer Program (January 2015)
- Intel announces Curie chip for wearable market (January 2015)
- Vuzix receives $24.8 million investment from Intel Corporation
(January 2015)
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Vuzix in 2015
- Expecting continued growth with the M100 as an Enterprise solution with pilots
soon to move to wider adoption (10s to 1000s)
- Expanding developer base and continued launch of new applications
- Release HD IWear 720 products for mobile entertainment and gaming
- Move to new larger facility with 5x cleanroom space for volume manufacturing
- Recruiting additional R&D staff, to accelerate new product launches
- Start commercialization of waveguides for enterprise and then consumer
markets
- Implement SOX compliance for NASDAQ
- Targeting strong revenue growth in second half of 2015
- Release/Demonstrate see-through waveguide based binocular Smart Glasses Q4
2015
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Vuzix Investment Highlights
- Received a $24.8 million investment from Intel Corporation (24% owner)
- Acknowledged as one the world leaders in Smart Glasses, established
- ver the last 20 years, and at the front end of market opportunities in the
billions of dollars
- Extensive cornerstone IP and technology base in wearable displays and
smart glasses
- Strong R&D plan and product roadmap to commercialize its
next generation technology for both Vuzix and potential third party OEMs and licensees
- Experienced team with a clear vision of the important
role that wearable displays will play in the future
- Partnerships with leading companies like
- Intel, SAP, Intel, AT&T, and many more
- Waveguide based fashion glasses being released by early 2016
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