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Recon Simplifies App Development

by Tom Allen

Recon Instruments has updated its Recon SDK to add new functionality and ‘streamlining’ the platform. The intent is to make app development for Recon’s wearables easier. For instance, a set of APIs have been …

Tags:Eyewear| Mobile Display Monitor| Software| Vol 22 - Issue 47

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 45

by Tom Allen

Pre-orders have now started for Apple‘s iPad Pro tablet, with sales expected to begin this month. Pricing scales from $800 to $1,080. Asus has enhanced the Zenfone 2 smartphone (Asus Swims Against Current With …

Vuzix Experiencing Order Growth as Enterprise Customers Convert Pilot Programs to Commercial Deployments

by Isaac Oburu

Vuzix® Corporation, (“Vuzix” or, the “Company”), a leading supplier of video eyewear and smart glasses products in the consumer, enterprise and entertainment markets, is pleased to announce that the company is seeing growing commitments …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Eyewear| Vuzix

JIN Relocates Fitness Tracker to the Head

by Tom Allen

JIN, a Japanese company, has shown off a wearable health tracker with a difference – it is a pair of glasses. Like wrist-worn trackers, the Jins Meme glasses have an accelerometer and gyroscope. JIN …

Tags:Eyewear| Fitness Trackers| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 43| Wearables

Computer Vision With SMI

by Steve Sechrist

Epson’s AR Glasses at Siggraph with integrated eye-tracking from SMI. Note the (rather) large brick required to process the data. It’s fine for industry but the company will have to migrate this to a …

SMI Shows First Eye Tracking Upgrade for Augmented Reality Glasses

by Bob Raikes

At the 2015 Siggraph Conference, SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) shows the world’s first Eye Tracking Integration for augmented reality, based on Epson’s Moverio BT-200 see-through head mounted display and on SMI’s mobile eye tracking platform. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Eyewear| Gaze Recognition| Siggraph 2015

Challenges Remain, but Some Display Jobs are Now Done

by Bob Raikes

This week, we have been very busy following up the SID show and we are just finalising the report as I write this article. Now I’m away from it, it’s getting clearer what the …

Display Week Wearables Conference Revisits Head Mounted Displays (WF2)

by Phillip Wright

Margaret Kohin, SVP, Business Development, eMagin Corporation was invited to present a Special Wearables Address at the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at SID’s 2015 Display Week. Kohin’s address was unique at …

Vuzix Excited by HMD Opportunity (IC11)

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was Paul Travers, President and CEO of Vuzix, which we have covered a lot in recent months. Vuzix started in 1997 and has been a partner for Kopin for a long …

Kopin Positive on New Applications (IC10)

by Bob Raikes

Dr John Fan is CEO of Kopin, which makes microdisplays. Fan said that the company is looking strongly at going into wearables. He said that the headset is the most important wearable device, but …

Ostendo Shows Impressive Microdisplays

by Bob Raikes

We reported on Ostendo last year when it was in the iZone. They came back this year and we interviewed them about their emissive LED microdisplays.

Luxottica Agrees to Continue Glass Development

by Tom Allen

Rumours of Google Glass’s demise (Google Glass is Off The Shelves For Now) have been greatly exaggerated – at least, if news from Italy is anything to go by. Italian firm Luxottica has signed …

Tags:Eyewear| Google| Google Glass| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 18