DJI, the maker of consumer drone aircraft, and Epson, which makes the Moverio augmented reality visor, have partnered to give customers a first-person perspective on what their aircraft is doing. The Moverio BT-300 binocular visor -- significantly smaller and lighter than previous models -- was introduced earlier this year at Mobile World Congress and is expected to ship in … [Read more...]
Epson Unveils Moverio BT-300 AR Visor at Mobile World Congress
Epson, which makes the most successful binocular augmented reality visor, today announced its newest model, the Moverio BT-300. The company says it is the lightest AR glasses on the market. Designed as a lighter follow-on to the BT-200, the BT-300 and meant for the commercial market, as opposed to the heavier duty industrial market. Asked which markets had expressed the most … [Read more...]
Next Glass May Fold, But New Moverio is Built For Rugged Work
It's far from impossible that Google, which did so much to plant the idea of a techie visor in the world's brain, will wind up seriously trailing the market it helped popularize. There are continuing slow leaks about the Enterprise Edition of Google Glass, but none of them really comes close products like Epson's Moverio BT-2000. The Moverios were never anything you'd wear … [Read more...]
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 and Magic Leap, so they don't seem to be making much of a distinction based on use case. Nonetheless, Tractica estimates that 114,000 units of AR glasses will ship this year, … [Read more...]
CES Day 1: Epson Enter Sports Wearables Market
Epson, which has had some success in the enterprise wearables market with its Moverio eyewear, has decided it likes the space and is getting into the sports tech business with a new series of consumer-level wearables. The Epson Active product line has three pieces: the Pulsense continuous heart rate monitor, Runsense GPS sports and running monitors, and the M-Tracer golf … [Read more...]
Salesforce 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, having signed on a bunch of particularly interesting companies. Daniel Debow, SVP of Emerging Technologies at Salesforce, told WTI that the Salesforce Wear package now supports … [Read more...]
More Facewear Ships, but Not From Google
Now there are two commercial wearable glasses on the market. Epson has just shipped its Moverio smart glasses, which first saw the light of day at CES in January, for $700. (Vuzix was the first. Google still isn't saying when Glass will actually ship to the general market.) The Wall Street Journal has a hands-on. The Moverio isn't something you'd want to strap on and wear … [Read more...]
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 medicine and industry. This is a significant pivot in Google's public face on Glass, which has long been focused on selling to the geek-forward developer and gadget community. A key … [Read more...]
CES: Epson Shows Moverio Visor and Pulsense Activity Tracker
We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Epson's Moverio smartglass platform. Epson formally showed it at CES, and it's pretty much what had leaked. The choice of demo partners listed in the press release is revealing, though. On the consumer side, they showed a few fighting games and first-person shooters, but also Scope AR, an augmented reality application that promises to … [Read more...]
Epson Shows Moverio Visor
Epson is a familiar brand to tech lifers. They're very big in dot matrix printers, labelers, cash registers and stuff like that, but it's been a while since Twittering classes have had them in their crosshairs. But Epson's been back in the labs playing with wearable tech and are about to show their latest take. TechRadar reports that the Moverio visor isn't meant for … [Read more...]