APX Labs was one of the first companies into the enterprise wearables market with its Skylight AR middleware. After more than six years in business, the company is changing its name. From here on out, call it Upskill. The idea, CEO Brian Ballard said in an email and blog post, is that industrial augmented reality enhances a worker's skill, helping them perform complex tasks … [Read more...]
APX Labs’s Skylight AR Software Now Runs on Recon Jet Displays
APX Labs and Recon Instruments are announcing that Skylight, APX's popular software platform for enterprise applications, is now available for Recon Jet's smart eyewear. The announcement continues APX's strategy of running on as many hardware platforms as possible; Recon -- now part of Intel -- has been focused on sports-related applications: cycling, boating, skiing. But … [Read more...]
93 Percent of Industrial Enterprises are Trying Wearable Tech, APX Labs Study Says
A survey of American industrial enterprises commissioned by APX Labs has found that nearly all of them -- 93 percent -- have either deployed wearable technologies or are trying them out. The survey collected 201 responses from from IT or business decisions makers with at least 500 employees, with an intentional skew toward enterprises with 5,000 or more employees, APX Labs … [Read more...]
APX Labs Publishes “Periodic Table of Wearables”
APX Labs, which sells Skylight -- software that connects wearable tech to enterprises -- is out with a smart "periodic table" of the enterprise wearable ecosystem. It's worth looking at because it gets so much right. The chart's focus is not on hardware or software, although those layers are certainly represented. Instead, it breaks down enterprise needs by function. … [Read more...]
Next-Gen Glass Will Use Intel Chips, says WSJ
The WSJ reports that the next version of Google Glass -- you mean there's going to be a next version? -- will use Intel processors instead of TI's. The article then goes into great detail on a point that no reader here will be surprised about: that the visor business will find success not with consumers but in enterprise applications. At least the reporters name-check two great … [Read more...]
Are Glass’s Best Days Behind It?
Reuters noticed late last week that all is not well in the world of Google Glass. Google CEO Sergey Brin recently walked into a high-profile event barefaced, they note. Glass is available on eBay for cheap and the project seems to resolutely to be resisting commercial release despite high-powered commercial partners. Seemingly released by the Reuters piece, bloggers spent the … [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...]
APX Labs Hires Away Google Glass Exec
One of the cooler demos we saw at the Glazed conference last month was by APX Labs, a Virginia startup that's building neat industrial applications for Google Glass and Epson's Moverio. Now comes news that APX has hired Eric Johnsen, most recently the head of Google's Glass at Work initiative, as its director of business development. We reported a few months ago that APX … [Read more...]
Google Picks Its First Five Glass Software Partners
There's more signs of Glass's life in the enterprise: Google has selected five software companies as its first Google At Work Certified Partners. We met the guys at APX Labs at Glazed earlier this month, although they were demoing their enterprise data application on Epson's Moverio. Aside from its hooks into enterprise data of all kinds, what's interesting about APX is an … [Read more...]
Funding Roundup: Owlet, APX Labs
Two small funding stories of note: Owlet, which makes an instrumented baby bootie that tracks skin temperature, heart rate, blood ox, and sleep data, has raised $1.85 million in seed funding. R/GA and Techstars, which incubated the company, participated in the round. Owlet, which costs $249, hopes to ship the summer, company officials say. APX Labs, a software company … [Read more...]