Clink glasses for a new Google Glasses competitor and a pair of jeans kicked by 130.000 CHF

2013 was the year of wearable computing: Smart Glasses and Watches began to dress us. In Switzerland the EPFL spin-off Composyt Light Labs with their wearable display technology for see-through augmented reality, have a good chance to swim with the big fishes in the next years.
 
Smart and stylish: EPFL spin-off created a new generation of smart glasses
You might know the augmented reality eyewear from Google, the Google Glasses, but what Mickaël Guillaumée and Eric Tremblay created reaches the next level. They developed smart glasses which provide more than a 40degree field of view in the smallest possible form. Clunky and obtrusive display technologies are a huge obstacle. The ultra-compact wearable display platform provides a new generation of aesthetic smart glasses. But winner Eric Tremblay knows, that a great product is not enough: “venture kick has really helped us to get out of the lab to validate and find traction for our technology. Our goal is now to close a key strategic partnership and the final kick will support us to reach that goal.” We are thrilled to observe who is developing further and faster in the field of the augmented reality eyewear: the big players or the small startup from Lausanne.
 
The perfect pair of jeans? Just a click away
On average, women try 20 pair of jeans until they finally buy one. Selfnation, a team of fashion designers and engineers, solves this problem and makes the jeans shopper’s life much easier. The ETH spin-off offers perfectly fitting jeans with online 3D visualization technologies and highly automated production processes. Selfnations own software creates a 3D model from the body measurements which the customer has to enter on their website. At the end the animation looks like as you would stand in front of a mirror at a fashion store. 14 days later the jeans with sustainable Italian denim will be sent to the customer.“The mental and strategic support helped us even more than the monetary grant. Especially the feedbacks and motivative advises by the venture kick coaches and the jury pushed us to a next level.” said Andreas Guggenbühl after his success.