Nimo Planet

Nimo Planet
Information
Industry	Spatial computing, Augmented Reality
Founded	2017 to 2018 (reported)
Founder	Rohildev Nattukallingal, Suneesh Thuluthiyil
Headquarters	Kochi, India
Products	Spatial computer (Nimo Core), smart glasses, Nimo OS
Website	https://www.nimoplanet.com

Nimo Planet is a spatial computing startup that builds a pocket-sized compute unit, companion Smart glasses, and an operating system aimed at productivity and multi-screen work. The company was founded by Rohildev Nattukallingal and Suneesh Thuluthiyil in the late 2010s (sources variously give the founding year as 2017 or 2018), and it is based in Kochi (Ernakulam), in the Indian state of Kerala, with corporate registrations in both India and Singapore. Its founders had previously run the wearables company Fin Robotics, maker of the Neyya gesture-control ring.

Nimo Planet markets what it calls the world's first spatial computer designed for productivity. The system pairs a small box about the size of an AirPods Pro case, the Nimo Core, with lightweight display glasses, and it renders up to six virtual screens floating in the wearer's physical space rather than a single flat monitor. The company has positioned the product as a far cheaper alternative to full mixed reality headsets such as the Apple Vision Pro, and it initially targeted enterprise customers and remote workers before opening consumer pre-orders.

History

Before Nimo Planet, Rohildev Nattukallingal founded Fin Robotics, a wearables company whose product was a thumb-worn ring called Neyya that enabled gesture control. The Neyya reached retail outlets including Bloomingdale's, but the venture wound down after problems that the team has attributed to advisor conflicts and lost United States inventory. Nattukallingal and former Fin Robotics colleague Suneesh Thuluthiyil started work on Nimo Planet in the late 2010s, building hardware and an operating system for a wearable workspace.

An early version of the Nimo smart glass entered beta around July 2020 with a group of testers. That first design used waveguide optics to simulate a roughly 60-inch screen at three meters, ran a custom Android-based system the company then called Planet OS, and was aimed at enterprises in India and the United States. The team was seeking a multi-million dollar seed round at the time, having raised about 130,000 US dollars from angel investors.

The company refined the concept into a two-part system and gave it a wider public unveiling in October 2023, presenting the Nimo Operating System, the Nimo Core compute unit, and the Nimo Glass display. In January 2024 Nimo Planet announced a partnership with Chinese AR firm Rokid to pair the Nimo 1 Core with the Rokid Max glasses, and it opened consumer pre-orders alongside an enterprise bundle. Reported investors across the company's history include angel backers such as Innov8 founder Ritesh Malik, along with April Ventures, Fittr, and Polygon.

Technology

The current Nimo system splits computing and display into separate pieces. The Nimo Core is a compact box, roughly the size of an AirPods Pro case, built around a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 (Gen 1) chip with an Adreno 650 GPU, 8 GB of RAM, and 128 GB of storage, with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1 for connectivity. The puck doubles as a pointing device and includes a trackpad for scrolling and tapping, and the system also accepts Bluetooth keyboards and an air mouse.

Image is delivered through tethered display glasses. The Nimo software renders up to six virtual screens at varying depths and sizes, described as ranging from about 30 to 100 inches, with a field of view of around 45 degrees depending on the glasses used. Because the glasses provide only rotational (3DoF) tracking rather than positional tracking, the virtual screens move with the wearer's head rather than staying locked in space, and the company's own marketing shows users panning their head between monitors. UploadVR contrasted this with the 6DoF tracking of competing products such as Sightful's Spacetop.

Nimo OS is built on the Android Open Source Project and Linux, and it is designed to run Android apps, web apps, and Unity apps, as well as to mirror or extend a Mac or Windows desktop over USB-C or Wi-Fi. The company says Nimo OS can extend up to five screens from a connected laptop into its workspace, and it has stated that it received a United States utility patent for its spatial workspace and multi-window architecture. Later versions of the software added generative AI features integrated across the interface.

Products

Nimo Planet's offering centers on the Nimo Core compute puck and the Nimo OS software, which can drive the company's own Nimo Glasses or, through its partnership program, third-party display glasses including the Rokid Max and Xreal Air. Pricing has shifted over the product's pre-order period, and the company has offered the Core alone, a bundle with Rokid glasses, and a full Nimo 1 package at different points.

Product	First shown	Type	Notable specs and notes
Nimo smart glass (beta)	2020	Waveguide smart glasses	Early design; waveguide optics simulating a ~60-inch screen at 3 m; ~26-degree field of view; Qualcomm-based; up to six virtual screens via head tracking; ran Planet OS; targeted enterprises
Nimo Core (Nimo 1 Core)	2023	Spatial compute unit	Pocket-sized puck (about AirPods Pro case size); Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1, Adreno 650 GPU, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB storage; Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1; built-in trackpad; ~2.5 to 3 hours battery
Nimo Glass (Nimo 1 Glasses)	2023	Tethered display glasses	Companion glasses for the Nimo Core; up to six virtual screens (~30 to 100 inches); field of view around 45 degrees; 3DoF rotational tracking
Nimo Core + Rokid Max bundle	2024	Spatial computer with third-party glasses	Announced January 23, 2024; pairs the Nimo 1 Core with Rokid Max (1080p per-eye Micro-OLED, 215-inch virtual screen, 75 g); enterprise bundle priced at 1,499 US dollars with a limited consumer pre-order at 799 US dollars

Reception

Coverage of Nimo Planet has framed it as an ambitious, low-cost take on spatial computing from a small Indian startup taking on much larger rivals. Inc42 highlighted the contrast between the company's modest funding and its goal of challenging technology giants, while Display Daily and Virtual Reality Times noted that the puck-plus-glasses approach is far cheaper to implement than headsets like the Apple Vision Pro. UploadVR credited Nimo for being candid about the limits of its hardware, particularly the narrow field of view that requires users to turn their head between virtual monitors, and pointed out that the glasses' lack of positional tracking means the screens follow head movement rather than staying anchored in the room. The same review noted that at the time of writing the product had no firm launch date. During the pre-order phase the company itself gave a shipping estimate of the third quarter of 2024 for the Nimo 1 Core, while telling enterprise-program buyers their units could ship within roughly six weeks.