Directional Assisted Reality
Augment, Navigate, Actuate


Providing the hardware and ecosystem which offers personalized discovery, efficient navigation, and hands-free actuation
By integrating three or more dipole antennas into the frames of popular glasses today, users can more efficiently locate radiating nearby objects of interest within their augmented reality-based, FOVs (from people carrying smartphones to retail items incorporating miniature antennas). In this system, each local object may emit an "I am here" signal and, correspondingly, each antenna onboard the glasses, may receive the same signal at a different signal strength. By measuring the received signal strengths at each of the antennas, the system can estimate the whereabouts of the local radio emitting object.
This solution, which is based on common radio emission modules such as Bluetooth Low Energy (iBeacon to Eddystone) and asymmetric radiation patterns, elegantly requires less hardware, connectivity, and power. It does not rely on static “object” locations, imprecise GPS positioning, or power-intensive and faulty image recognition solutions.
1ST GENERATION PROTOTYPE
2ND GENERATION PROTOTYPE
LATEST PROTOTYPE
Per a Grand View Research report, a 70% CAGR is projected for the Head-Mounted Display Augmented Reality technology space from 2016-2024, at a market size of over $100B (2024).
The number of global Bluetooth beacon devices is projected to grow at a rate of 222.8% year over year during the period of 2016-2020. This market is being propelled by a number of key influencers including Apple (developer of iBeacon technology) as well as Microsoft and Google (developers of beacon technology standards).
IHS Market expects that the number of smartphones will surpass 6 billion devices by the year 2020, where a majority of these devices which will be Bluetooth enabled.
Research with ETH Zürich funded by TETRAMAX grant which focused on Low Complexity Direction Finding (2020-2021)
Selected as a SXSW Interactive Innovation Award Finalist in the VR and AR category (March 9 - 16th, 2018 in Austin, Texas, USA)
Accepted to present "WE DARE: Wearable Electronics Directional Augmented Reality" at Design, Automation and Test in Europe in 2018 (March 21, 2018 in Dresden, Germany)
Presented "WARE: Wearable Electronics Directional Augmented Reality" at DATE 2017 (March 30, 2017 in Lausanne, Switzerland)
Selected to present "A Low-Complexity Eyewear System for Direction-based Augmented Reality Applications" at ACM Sensys 2017 (November 5-8, in Delft, Netherlands)
Patent or Publication No. | Title | ||
US 9,092,898 | Method, system and apparatus for the augmentation of radio emissions | ||
US 10,056,054 | Method, system, and apparatus for optimizing the augmentation of radio emissions | ||
US 10,477,602 | Method, system, and apparatus for providing content, functionalities and services in connection with the reception of an electromagnetic signal | ||
EP 3596782 | Method, system, and apparatus for providing content, functionalities and services in connection with the reception of an EM signal | ||
US 10,880,716 | Method, system, and apparatus for providing content, functionalities, and services in connection with the reception of an electromagnetic signal | ||
The Wagoo™ functional team, across current and future collaborators, comprises various professionals and institutions.
Founder/Vision
Patent Attorney and former head of Nokia’s Wireless Patent Portfolio
•Specialties: Intellectual Property development, creativity, legal
Monetization/Vision
Top 300 Global IP Strategist, MBA, BSEE, Registered Patent Agent
•Specialties: Marketing, fundraising, business development, monetization
Operations/Vision
International Business Development, Executive MBA, BSBA Marketing
•Specialties: Finance, business development, marketing
Software Integration
BS Bioinformatics
•Specialties: Firmware Development & Machine Learning
Technology/Antennas
Owner of Athena S.r.l.
•Specialties: RF circuit design, antenna design, international approvals
Software Integration
BS Bioinformatics
•Specialties: Software Development, Machine Learning
Technology/Management
Co-founder & CEO of EDALab
• Specialties: Hardware prototyping, product design, human-computer interactions
Technology/Sound diffusion
Acoustic Engineer
• Specialties: Sound propagation and sound equalization
Developing hardware proof of concept prototype for integration within traditional eyewear systems.
The Wagoo™ advisory team
Corporate Advisor
Global Director for Luxottica Group
•Specialties: Corporate Development, R&D
Technical Advisor, Technology/Software
Ph.D. Comp. Eng. and Asst. Professor of C.S. at the University of Verona
•Specialties: Design/simulation of networked embedded systems, RF modeling
Technology Advisor
PhD Researcher at ETH Zurich in the Dep. of Information Tech.
•Specialties: HW/SW co-design, sensors, wearable devices, low power, energy harvesting techniques