Originally posted by MET michael meroniuk on 25/01/2020
I came across this on Kickstarter. It seems like a cool tool to help with presentations and collaborations. Glamos is a motion sensor that creates a virtual touchscreen anywhere. Connect it with your device and turn your screens instantly interactive. Project an invisible touchscreen near you and control a device that’s far away from you.
Technology is meant to bring in more ease, comfort and efficiency in doing things. Gamos appears to be a cool device that addresses this need. The design is apt to qualify as a next generation gadget that can be used with any device. The pitch promises to instantly transform any environment into a virtual environment and ensure better interactivity, control and inclusive experience anywhere.
The presentation seems to be quite competent. It includes appeal to all generations starting from kids, moms and across to professionals and scholars. It establishes relevance to all environments of learning, entertainment, marketing, professional and domestic situations. The mechanism of Gamos is well explained in a swift fraction of the second and it sums up the impact it can have on lives across all generations. This makes up for a good pitch.
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Looking at this from an investor’s perspective there are a lot of things going for it. First of all, just looking at the ad, people of all ages and professions could use this. It could be used for entertainment or professional presentations, meaning that some people may choose to purchase more than one, maybe families will want one for each device or family member. Also, I do like that it explained how it worked, but quickly. One issue of concern I would have is if technology advances where something similar is installed within devices, making this obsolete. If I was going to invest a lot of money into this venture I would like to know what next, can it be made smaller, could the technology be held in a case?
Michael, I agree with your comments on the value of the Glamos itself – the more I look at this product, the more I like it! But in particular, I also am uncertain as to how long it’ll actually be around before someone else comes along and renders it obsolete, either by making a better, cheaper product, or yes, by putting it in our phones or other existing devices.
If Glamos’s design is somehow unique and could be sold to be added to existing tech then this would be worth looking at as an investment. But without that, I would simply buy Glamos for myself for now and see what the market comes up with as we go.
This year, the demand for a touchless computer has never been higher, due to CoVID-19. The pitch doesn’t mention that, but as a small device that can be retrofitted to existing devices (desktops, cell phones, tablets, kiosks), it has great potential.
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This pitch was slick and well-produced, right down to the Black Turtleneck of Jobs. The concept is excellent and original, and especially the feature of being a small, convenient addition to the tech you already own. I appreciated the concise summary of the design and underlying technology, and their background as engineers for Samsung was emphasized to bolster their credibility.
YES, I would invest in this venture. Specifically for me at present this strikes me as a good investment as it solves the problem of allowing people to interact on and share the same touch screen without actually touching it – creating opportunities to engage with one another, while thinking safety first in the current COVID-19 pandemic. Just yesterday I was talking touch screen safety with one of my teachers who is going to be working with two kids on her first film set since the beginning of the pandemic. Typically the kids on set use our smartphones, tablets, and laptops. While yesterday, I suggested teaching the kids pandemic ‘clean if you touch’ protocols, Glamos would make those unnecessary.
Even if the pandemic were not a current consideration, this is a technology that would appeal to me, as it can make a personal device interactive with the whole room, gets you physically moving more, would be more intuitive and less frustrating for my non-tech savvy mom, would allow me to place my device further from messy things that I am doing, and would make presentations more engaging with physical motion. In fact, I plan to look Glamos up on Kickstarter after I finish typing this to see if the Kickstarter campaign is still current, learn more about the technology behind it, and find out if it is possible to purchase one (or multiple) of these devices.
Depending on my level of investment as an EVA and the degree to which the Glamos has been marketed, I might suggest a change in names, as to me Glamos makes me think of beauty products, as oppose to Touch Less Technology.
This looks like a great device!! Already I can picture how many recipes I can ‘flip’ through without messing up the screen or having to wash my hands, or streaming a show while I’m cleaning. And yes, we can avoid touching surfaces generally making a safer school and workplace all around. But I would hesitate to invest in it just yet.
I did a quick google search for competitors for Glamos and found an open-source platform called Touchless.Design developed by Ideum. This platform won First Prize for Ultraleap’s Beyond Touchscreens Developer Competition (August/Sep 2020 so this is recent) beating out its competition (or some of them anyways!). You can read up on Touchless.Design at https://touchless.design/#about
And no, I don’t believe Ideum has created a pocket-sized device to render any surface touchless, but how difficult would that be for a well-backed, open source development company to replicate? Is Glamos a patented design/tech?
Based on the competition alone, while I’m sold on touchless screens as a whole, I’m not sure if Glamos is where I would put my money. Without doing further research on Glamos, from a pitch perspective only, I would want to know the size of current market, its current revenues if any and how it will maintain it’s competitive advantage over time, in addition to all an EVA would obviously need to know – who is its CEO, Advisors, what kind of backing do they have already and their strategy and business plan.
That said – I really do like this product! And depending on its availability, I’d probably look into purchasing it.