 Osterhout has over three decades of developing head-worn technology, starting with the PVS-7 Night Vision Goggles in 1984 and has created nine different generations of smartglasses.Osterhout has been referred to as the "real-life Q", in reference to the fictional character Q that equips James Bond with secret spy gadgets, after Osterhout designed and developed several gadgets for James Bond films.Ralph Osterhout was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1946 and moved to Santa Cruz, California, at the age of one.