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Needham Growth Conference2019
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This presentation includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to our expected future financial and operating performance, growth in the markets in which our products are sold, our market share for our products, and our significant customers. We may use words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “could,” “seeks,” “estimates,” and variations of such words and similar expressions in identifying forward-looking statements. In addition, any statements which refer to expectations, projections, our stock value multiple, the value of head-worn computing and or our products, or other characterizations of future events or circumstances are forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions which are difficult to predict. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. We refer you to the documents the Company files from time to time with Securities and Exchange Commission, and specifically the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s Form 10-K for the period ended December 30, 2017. We do not undertake to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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MOBILE VR, AR AND WEARABLE HEADSET TECHNOLOGY : KOPIN’s 30 Year Quest
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1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Kopin
Transmissive Display
Golden-i Headset
Computer
Video Eyewear
Electronic
Viewfinder
Mono SXGA
0.97”
Funding for
microdisplays
Mono QVGA
0.24”
Electronic
Viewfinder
Color VGA
0.44”Night Vision
Goggle
Thermal Weapon
Sights
Forte Virtual
Reality
Lightning OLED
Solos
Smart Glasses
Shipped over 35M Displays
Golden-I Infinity
2018
KOPIN TODAY - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PORTFOLIO
• More than 300 patents and pending
• Most of the patents are related to wearables
• Licensed IP to some companies• Royalties
• Component sales
• Equity stake
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KOPIN TODAY- WEARABLE PRODUCT PORTFOLIO
Ultra-smallDisplays
Modules with Innovative Optics
Speech Enhancement
System Reference Designs
Consumer
•Goertek
•Oriscape
•SOLOS
Military
•Elbit
•DRS
•Lockhead Martin
•Raytheon
•Rockwell Collins
Enterprise
•Fujitsu
•Lenovo New Vision
•RealWear
•Scott Safety
•Vuzix
KOPIN TODAY- CUSTOMER PORTFOLIO
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RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
• Endopodium to Develop High Resolution Wearable Displays for Medical and Surgical
Applications: develop and commercialize next generation of head mounted display
system (HMD) designed for advanced medical and surgical applications
• TrainingPeaks: Kopin teaming up with TrainingPeaks LLC., to support TrainingPeaks'
Structured Workouts.
• Agreement with JUTZE Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. (JUTZE) : Kopin subsidiary
Forth Dimension Displays to provide displays for JUTZE Mirage series of 3D SPI
(Solder Paste Inspection) equipment.
• Agreement with Skully Technologies: SKULLY will incorporated Kopin’s WQVGA
Microdisplay and A230 driver IC in the SKULLY FENIX AR motorcycle helmet.
• 5,000 Units Shipment to Tier One Customer: The shipment of 5,000 display modules to
a Tier One US internet company for its soon-to-launch next generation augmented
reality (AR) smart glasses
• Kopin’s Golden-i Infinity Wearable Evaluation Program Commences: Approximately 100
Organizations Have Signed up to Pilot Test the Unique Smart Glass Platform that
combines Kopin’s industry leading display and Whisper® voice extraction technologies
to provide a smart screen that clips on to safety glasses, bump caps or hardhat.
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REVENUE DRIVERS - MILITARY OPPORTUNITIES
• F35 Strike Fighter Program – In Production
– All the information pilots need to complete their missions – airspeed, heading, altitude, targeting information and warnings – is projected on the helmet’s visor, rather than on a traditional Heads-up Display.
– Potential $100M revenue opportunity over the next 10 years
• U.S. Army FWS Program
– FWS Individual (FWS-I) Selected by one of two prime contractors to provide the eyepiece assemblies for the next generation of thermal sights – In Production
– FWS Crew Served (FWS-CS) Engineering and Development Contract awarded in 2016, Prototype Testing into 2019, then Deployment schedules - Development
– FWS Program is Potential $100M revenue opportunity over the next 10 years
• Armored Vehicle – In Development
– First design win in armored vehicles. A Kopin FDD NVIS Win.
– Rollout $40M to $80M revenue opportunity over the next 10 years
– In development through 2020, then volume production
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REVENUE DRIVERS - INDUSTRIAL
• Industrial: Vuzix, Realwear, Lenovo New Vision, Others
• Safety: Scotts Safety Firemen Helmets (In discussions with European & Chinese Helmet Manufacturers)
• 3-D metrology
• Golden-I Infinity
• Industrial Headset Customers
– Kopin shipped approximately 30,000 units in 2018 and 2019 projects to over 100,000 units
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Friend/FOE
875m
230.63° 37 23.516 122 02.625
WHY DO CUSTOMERS CHOOSE KOPIN – WE SOLVE PROBLEMS LIKE THIS
Generic
Display Engine
Retrofit
Revised
Optics
+
GPS & Compass
=
Maintain fixed reticle
High Resolution
DVO always available
DVO stays on weapon
Retains boresight
Visual and Sensor Fusion
SWIR, Thermal, I2
Target ID
Rapid Targeting
> First shot accuracy
Active Target reticleWind & Range
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– Comprehensive line of modules for all HMD needs: Consumer & Enterprise applicationsAugmented Reality
• Transmissive AMLCDs for AR
– 0.20” – .88” diagonal
– QVGA – QXGA
• Backlights: Super-high brightness to Compete with the Sun, low power for inside and outside use
• Optics: Compact designs -- everyone wants small and good looking device – even in enterprise use
• Driver ASICs: small size, low power
Virtual Reality
• 2k by 2K OLED (Lightning™) for VR
– 1.0” diagonal
– 2048 x 2048 resolution (4 million pixels)
– 120 Hz with low power consumption,
– Pantile™ optics (< 30 mm thick) allows much smaller and thinner mobile VR systems
AMLCD - Augmented Reality
OLED -Virtual Reality
AUGMENTED & VIRTUAL REALITY DISPLAY MODULES
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KOPIN LCD (CYBERDISPLAY) FOR AR
Si IC LCD
LCD High Brightness for Out Door Applications
CyberDisplay
LensCyber Display
Virtual Image
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•CES Innovation Award in January 2017
•OLED on silicon architecture provides the highest resolution, fastest speed, and lowest power
•Kopin has a unique, patented architecture (10 patents pending)
•Fabless manufacturing model for rapid volume ramp
KOPIN OLED (LIGHTNING) FOR VR
KOPIN OLED FOR VR
3X pixels versus
existing Mobile VR
OLEDs for natural,
smooth images without
the screen door effect
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120 Hz Frame
Rate To Help
Avoid Motion
Artifacts That
Can Cause
Dizziness or
Nausea
60 Hz VR = Motion Blur Artifacts
120 Hz frame rate = No Motion Blur
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LIGHTNING 2K OLED
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Kopin, one that’s not only interesting but potentially
extremely pertinent to next generation VR hardware.
Seeing is believing here, and I quite literally could not see
anything resembling aliasing on the display even with a 10x
loupe to try and look more closely at the display
The Technology That May Drive The Next Generation of
Phones and Mobile Devices…the most advanced display I
saw came from Kopin, which showed a 1-inch OLED panel with
a 2048 by 2048 resolution and a 120 Hz frame rate
2048×2048 and a fast 120 Hz frame rate - firsts for the VR
industry and will raise the bar on performance… Latency is
also an astoundingly low 10 microseconds
Kopin Debuts Lightning OLED Microdisplay With 2k x 2k
Resolution for Mobile VR New High-Speed 4 Million Pixel
Display Wins CES Innovation Award for Mobile Virtual
Reality.
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VR AND AR OPTICAL MODULES
60
Distance to Eye (MM)
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Field of View
PRISM
PEARL
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality – Matching Display and Optics
PUPIL
Virtual RealityPANCAKE
PANTILE80
100
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KOPIN WHISPER CHIP: A DIFFERENT APPROACHTO AUDIO
Specifically designed for Wearables
• No distortion to voice signal – natural voice
• Adaptive voice detection – “listening” adjusts
to environmental noise level
• Lowest power – less than 12 mW
• Only 16MHz clock frequency
• Replaces CODEC – All digital
• “Configurable” for your device
• Digital microphone in (up to 4)
• Digital speaker out (2)
• Compact size (4x4 mm)
BU
S
I2S
to
external
audio to host
ARM
Cortex-M0
I2C UART
DSP
Co-Processor
4
Digital
MEMS Mic
Clock
Manager
GPIOPDM PWM
ROM RAM
Main clock
SPI
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PLL
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VOICE INTERFACE:– Kopin has developed the Whisper Chip™ that provides up to almost 2X
improvement in human-to-machine (H2M) automatic speech recognition (ASR) rates.
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BALANCE SHEET HIGHLIGHTS September 29, 2018($ in millions)
Cash and marketable securities $46.2
A/R and inventory 7.6
Contract assets and unbilled AR 1.9
Other current assets 1.2
PP&E 5.0
Goodwill & intangibles 2.0
Other assets 7.7
Total assets $71.6
Current liabilities $10.1
Other 2.3
Equity 59.2
Total liabilities and equity $71.6
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Customers/partners leverage our portfolio of key technologies developed over 30 year history
• LCOS displays (transmissive and reflective)
• OLED 2K x 2K display, 720P
• Optics
• Ergonomics
• Software
• Electronics
• Packaging
• Speech Enhancement
TechnologyWe understand the complete wearable headset system requirements
SUMMARYA FOCUS ON WEARABLES
Demonstrate that the breadth of our knowledge and increase our critical component offerings enabling our partners to develop tailored solutions and reduce their time to market
Customers
Continue to enhance our IP portfolio on key technologies and concept system designs
Innovation
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