Luxinnovations was at the show and was highlighting its ability to customise its Trivisio headsets, which we saw at the Wearables Event in London and in Laval. There was no new product in Stuttgart, but the company told us more about its business. Medicine is the fastest growing segment as medical professionals are able to make quick decisions often based on individual evaluations. VR and AR hardware is also low cost compared to a lot of medical high technology.
Industry is another good segment for the firm and it also gets into Logistics, which from the headset point of view is usually “very simple”. Military applications are the final category that the firm operates in.
Customisation is the key to the firm’s business model. For example, it showed us an AR headset that it made that has two large buttons for the operator to select options. The reason for the large buttons is that in the particular application, the operator would have heavy gloves on and could not operate anything other than a very simple control.
The company is also close to getting ‘Atex’ approval which means that the headsets can be used in hazardous environments such as petrochemicals and dusty areas. It hopes to have the approval in three months – “When everyone comes back from their holiday”.
Triviso’s headset is shown here with custom buttons for gloved hand operations. Image:Meko
