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Vuzix Ships “First Commercially Available” Smart Glasses
Having finished its production tooling and having cleared regulatory hurdles (and we’d love to hear more about that), Vuzix announced today that it’s starting commercial shipment of its M100 industrial...
View ArticleCES: Nuance Voice Recognition for Wearables
CES is so last week, but there were a bunch of announcements that you ought be be caught up on so we’ll be trickling them out as we can. Nuance, the voice recognition company behind the Dragon Dictate...
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Vuzix Looks Ahead: Hands-on With Prototypes
We’ve already written lots about Vuzix: how it’s focusing on enterprise and industry instead of the consumer market, how it’s the first actual commercially shipping eyewear wearable. Nothing in this...
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Google Glass Goes to Work, as NYTimes Ignores Other Products
Google’s PR team appears to have woken up to all the bad press about Glass’s lack of usefulness. There’s a roundup in the NYTimes today with a long list of pilot programs that are using Glass in...
View ArticleSalesforce Extends Wearables Further Into the Enterprise
A couple of months ago, we wrote about how cloud software company Salesforce had started a pilot program to incorporate wearables into the enterprise. The company is back now with a progress report,...
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Vuzix Sells 30 Percent to Intel for $24.8 Million; Will Enter Consumer Market
We’ve long believed that the visor company Vuzix was better positioned than most to succeed in the enterprise market. Intel apparently agrees: it announced over the weekend that it’s bought 30 percent...
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Vuzix and Pristine Partner for Enterprise Wearables
Pristine builds telepresence enterprise and healthcare applications around wearable technology. Like many companies, it built its first round of products around Google Glass — understandable as Google...
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Luxottica’s Glass Will Be Out “Soon,” CEO Says; Intel Version Next Year
Luxottica is the world’s largest optical goods company, and you may remember that Google has a deal with the company — sealed a year ago — to produce a consumer version of Glass. Massimo Vian is one of...
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12 Million Augmented Reality Glasses Will Ship by 2020, Says Tractica
The market research firm Tractica estimates that 12 million units of “smart augmented reality glasses” will ship in the next five years. The company counts everything from Google Glass to Oculus Rift...
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Intel Acquires Recon Instruments
Intel continues its sweep into the consumer wearables market, acquiring Recon Instruments for a reported $175 million. Recon is big in the sports segment of the augmented reality market, making the...
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Intel Pulls Plug on Basis Fitness Tracker; Will Shut Down Hub at Year End
Intel appears to have thrown in the towel on its Basis fitness trackers, telling all users to send them back and saying it will turn off the server they need at the end of 2016. Basis was an early and...
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