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Corporate Overview May 2015 Paul Travers President Vuzix Corp. NASDAQ: VUZI Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements


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Corporate Overview

May 2015 Paul Travers

President Vuzix Corp. NASDAQ: VUZI

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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

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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…

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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

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Beginning the Move from Initial Trials to Rolling out Programs

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Examples in field service, warehousing, manufacturing and more….

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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)
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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
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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

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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

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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
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Technology Evolves: Day in the Life of Cloud Connected You…

http://sidv.co/author/sid/ Images: Siddharth Vanchinathan

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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

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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

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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

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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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THANK YOU

Investor Relations: IRTH Communications Andrew Haag 866-976-4784 vuzix@irthcommunications.com Contact: Vuzix Corporation 585-359-5000 http://www.vuzix.com/