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Liquidity and Going Concern Issues
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Going Concern Disclosure [Abstract]  
Liquidity and Going Concern Issues
Note 2 — Liquidity and Going Concern Issues
 
The Company’s independent registered public accounting firm’s report issued on our consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 included an explanatory paragraph describing the existence of conditions that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, including continued operating losses and the potential inability to pay currently due debts. The net operating loss for the first quarter of 2014 was $993,150. The Company has incurred a net loss from continuing operations consistently over the last 2 years. The Company incurred annual net losses from its continuing operations of $10,146,228 in 2013 and $4,747,387 in 2012, and has an accumulated deficit of $34,780,626 as of March 31, 2014. The Company’s ongoing losses have had a significant negative impact on the Company’s financial position and liquidity.  As at March 31, 2014 the Company had a working capital deficit of $1,836,319.
 
The Company’s cash requirements are primarily for funding operating losses, working capital, research, principal and interest payments on debt obligations, and capital expenditures. Historically, the Company has met these cash needs by borrowings under notes, sales of convertible debt, the sales of equity securities and the sale of assets.
 
Since the closing of the Company’s public stock offering on August 5, 2013 and the related debt conversions and repayments, the Company has had the financial resources to better execute on its business plans and reduced the doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. However the Company’s continued operating losses and large composition of past due accounts payable continue to affect the efficient operations of the Company and slow new product development.
  
During the first quarter of 2014, holders of the warrants issued in our public offering which closed on August 5, 2013 exercised for cash warrants for the purchase of 643,300 shares of common stock and the Company received proceeds of $1,447,425 from such warrant exercises. These warrant exercise proceeds will contribute to helping the Company fund and implement its current 2014 operating plan.
 
The Company’s cash requirements depend on numerous factors, including new product development activities, our ability to commercialize our products, their timely market acceptance, selling prices and gross margins, and other factors. To the extent the Company has sufficient operating funds, it expects to carefully devote capital resources to the development of new products and to continue its waveguide and HD display engine development programs, hire and train additional staff, and undertake new product marketing activities. Such expenditures, along with further future net operating losses, product tooling expenses, and related working capital investments, will be the principal uses of cash. The Company must grow its business significantly to become profitable and self-sustaining on a cash flow basis or it will be required to raise new capital.
 
The Company’s management intends to take actions necessary to continue as a going concern, as discussed herein, and accordingly our condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that we will continue as a going concern. The condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. Management’s plans concerning these matters and managing our liquidity includes among other things:
 
managing working capital through better optimization of inventory levels;
focusing on selling higher gross margin products, which will mean a greater emphasis on augmented reality and smart glasses products;
the introduction of see-through waveguide and new higher resolution Video Eyewear;
reducing operating costs wherever possible;
minimizing capital expenditures by eliminating, delaying or curtailing discretionary and non-essential spending;
deferring some research and development and delaying some planned new products based on new technology;
exploring options with respect to new equity financings or debt borrowings; and
exploring the licensing of our IP
 
The Company and its management cannot make assurances as to whether any of these actions can be effected on a timely basis, on satisfactory terms or maintained once initiated, and even if successful, whether its liquidity plan will limit certain of our operational and strategic initiatives designed to grow the business over the long term or whether such initiatives will be limited by the availability of capital.
 
Continued increases in product sales and engineering services will be important steps to achieving cash-flow positive operations. The Company in calendar 2014 is now effectively shipping all new models and products as compared to its offerings last year. However, if these products are not successful within a reasonable time period, we will have to raise additional capital to maintain operations and/or materially reduce our operating and new product development costs. New products incorporating our waveguide optics and HD resolution Video Eyewear products may be delayed as a result.
 
If the Company is required to raise additional funds by selling additional shares of its capital stock, or securities convertible into shares of its capital stock, the ownership interest of existing shareholders may be diluted. The amount of dilution could be increased by the issuance of warrants or securities with other dilutive characteristics, such as full ratchet anti-dilution clauses or price resets. The Company can give no assurance that it will be able to obtain additional financing on favorable terms or at all. If it is unable to become profitable and self-sustaining on a cash flow basis and needs to obtain future external funding, the Company could be forced to delay, reduce or eliminate its research and development programs, future commercialization efforts or otherwise curtail its business, which could adversely affect its business prospects. These factors raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.