Jeri already delivered pretty much the very same Kickstarter 4-6 years ago https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/cast... but company was lured by no other than Andy Rubin into a VC circus https://www.roadtovr.com/ar-glasses-company-castar-lands-15-... and the rest is rather predictable - your product is worth more unreleased, and whole purpose of the company is finding a bigger fool to buy you out. Board fired technical staff, bought few game studios, ran out of VC money and moved on to pillage something else.
Yeah, Jeri's Amphour talk is one of the things I make people I know who are trying to get into tech startups listen to. It's a great insight into what happens when a sucessful startup gets the wrong kind of VC help.
For what it's worth, the original glasses set worked wonderfully years ago when I used them and I'll back this one again. I'm still determined to have my floating CAD solidworks demo with it. Customers will freaking love it.
p.s. The games were fun too. Try it with Alien Swarm.
But it was the very best kind of VC you could hope for. Andy Rubin, former Apple/General Magic employee, founder of two companies with very successful exits (danger, android).
Thanks for the information, this colors the Kickstarter choice a lot differently and actually makes me trust it a bit more, so I'm going to "edit" my original comment (I can't actually edit it, so consider this the edit/retraction) to mention that, in this instance, I've changed my mind.
You can listen to the whole story straight from horses mouth in this podcast https://theamphour.com/394-jeri-ellsworth-and-the-demise-of-...