The Mountain View, California, company plans to ship its developer kit early next year and a consumer version later in 2014.
Hailed as Google Glass meets 3-D, Atheer Labs' augmented reality glasses can be used by factory workers to manage inventory, gamers to play immersive first-person shooters, and more. Atheer first showed off its futuristic goggles at AllThingsD's conference to much fanfare in May, and on Thursday, the two-year-old startup announced it is turning to crowdfunding to collect feedback for its glasses.