{"id":60,"date":"2025-06-06T05:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/etsy-co-founders-new-startup-is-making-what-really-looks-like-a-mixed-reality-magnifying-glass\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:34:17","slug":"etsy-co-founders-new-startup-is-making-what-really-looks-like-a-mixed-reality-magnifying-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/etsy-co-founders-new-startup-is-making-what-really-looks-like-a-mixed-reality-magnifying-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"<div>Etsy co-founder&#8217;s new startup is making what really looks like a mixed reality magnifying glass<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Virtual and augmented reality are still pretty new frontiers with a lot of potentially cool ideas yet to be developed. The latest product in the mixed reality space could be coming from a startup called Dopple Works. <em><ins>Lowpass<\/ins><\/em> reported that the secrecy-shrouded business from Etsy co-founder and former CEO Robert Kalin is working on a new device called Loop.<\/p>\n<p>Dopple Works has submitted an <ins>application<\/ins> to the Federal Communications Commission. Many of the details are not publicly available, but that filing indicates that Loop is battery-powered and will use both WiFi and Bluetooth networks. <em>Lowpass<\/em> also unearthed a patent <ins>application<\/ins> that dubs Loop a &ldquo;dedicated hand-held spatial computing device.&rdquo; The application comes with images that show a camera, speaker and tracking sensor that could capture details on an environment, along with a screen for viewing the mixed reality content.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, there&rsquo;s not enough information available to speculate on what Loop&rsquo;s purpose will be. But the photos from the government filings do spark some entertaining mental images of a future where people wandering about doing their best Sherlock Holmes imitations with mixed reality magnifying glasses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Etsy co-founder&rsquo;s new startup is making what really looks like a mixed reality magnifying glass<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual and augmented reality are still pretty new frontiers with a lot of potentially cool ideas yet to be developed. The latest product in the mixed reality space could be coming from a startup called Dopple Works. Lowpass reported that the secrecy-shrouded business from Etsy co-founder and former CEO Robert Kalin is working on a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/etsy-co-founders-new-startup-is-making-what-really-looks-like-a-mixed-reality-magnifying-glass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;<\/p>\n<div>Etsy co-founder&#8217;s new startup is making what really looks like a mixed reality magnifying glass<\/div>\n<p>&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}