Wearable device development group
Cutting through the world with a wide range of personal connections and abundant experience + ideas
Comprehensive production company that innovates from scratch.

Profile

CEO

Takahito Fukuda

We started as a manual production company in 1984, and since then, we have continued to run under the concept of fusion of ideas and cutting-edge technology and have shaken the world as a pioneer of Japanese wearables.

Manual production ⇒ animation manual production ⇒ software development ⇒ hardware development. We have evolved our business and launched our wearable computing business in 2000, promoting the development of wearable systems such as remote support systems and AR engines. Our wearable glass system was announced, which has been called the "Japanese Google Glass." It has debuted at overseas exhibitions such as CES and Hannover Messe and has had an impact on the world.

We will continue to open up the world with a wide range of personal connections and abundant ideas. I would like to contribute to the creation of new industries as the general producer of a manufacturing development group that innovates from scratch.

Main career

▪1983-1991: Representative of Studio WEST
▪1991-1999: West Co., Ltd. President and CEO
▪1999-2019: WESTUNITIS Co., Ltd. President and Representative Director
▪2017-2020: WESTUNITIS Inc. (US corporation) CEO / founder
▪2019-2020: WESTUNITIS Co., Ltd. Director and Founder
▪2003-Present: NPO Institute for Wearable Computer Research and Development, Vice President
▪2020-Present: Santa Presents, Inc. Technical Evangelist

Reference

Patented

Patents related to wearable devices (12 patents, including international patents)
AR-related patents (4 including international patents)
Others (2 cases)

Media coverage

TV (NHK, TV Tokyo, TV Asahi, NTV, TBS, Fuji TV, etc.)
Newspapers (Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, etc.)
Magazines (Nikkei Computer, Nikkei Design, etc.)
STARTUP CITY（US）

Lecture

Wearable EXPO (Japan), CES (USA), InsideAR (Germany), and many others

Service

Manufacturing from zero to one through the fusion of hardware and software!

◎Do you want to create products that change the future?
○Do you create products that predict the future?
△Do you make products after the market is ready?

Hardware development

Optical design and manufacture of prisms and lenses for smart glasses
Circuit and substrate design and manufacturing that considers signal processing for cameras, OLEDs, etc.
Signal processing of various sensors, circuit and substrate design and manufacturing
Production of final products from design and mechanism design