Ossic X 3D Headphones DOA, Another Crowdfund Bites the Dust

[gene]

Another one bites the dust. Crowdfunded headphone startup Ossic closes its doors after raising $3.2 million from pre-orders that will never be fulfilled. Over 22,000 customers pre-paid for the Ossic X headphone, which promised 3D audio with built-in head-tracking and custom-tailored sound. Unfortunately, this kind of crowdfunding flop is more common than many people realize.

Read: Ossic X 3D Headphones DOA, Another Crowdfund Bites It

 

[king2b]

What about YARRA and Kickstarter?

 

[The Real Thomas Dolby]

Maybe the shape of ears is funny, but I tend to think that HRTF schemes to get surround sound are a scam. I can hear discrete speaker surround just fine, but turn on one of those HRTF filters and I hear distortion, not any spatial localization.

 

[randyb]

I think the hype they put out bordered on fraud. It is one thing to let people know of risk, quite another to put out reports of progress that are knowingly false.

 

[Victor rODRIGUEZ]

nobody gives dollars at cents

 

[Victor rODRIGUEZ]

Crowdfunding that pays logitech and pioneer retirements

 

[MR.MAGOO]

slick way of extorting money from the gullible masses.

 

[NorseMythology]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/413314819/ora-the-worlds-first-graphene-headphones

Perhaps another?