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Wearable technology draws out Rochester firms

Several companies working to adapt or manufacture smart glasses or related products

"Think smartphones are big?

Experts say wearable technology — smart watches, Google Glass, augmented reality goggles and digital wristbands — will become the iconic gadgets and quite possibly the next round of needed technology for firms in the foreseeable future.

Simply put, micro computers and monitors are being put in everyday items like glasses, watches, wristbands or T-shirts to track physical activity take video, shoot photos and even help firms collect inventory and more.

Some devices will learn from the data collected to generate a list of recommendations or take actions on behalf of the users.

Now at about $1.4 billion, the wearable technology industry is expected to grow to $19 billion in five years. According to ABI Research, the market will grow to 485 million devices by 2018, including more than 75 million pairs of smart glasses.

And Rochester already has a stake in the emerging industry, especially the sector related to Google Glass and similar eyewear.

Primo customer

RedBottle Design, a software development company in Rochester, has created a shopping app for use with Google Glass to help shoppers get more information about products and pay for them.



Rochester Optical has hired Tim Moore, partly because of his experience in developing wearable technology, to assist in the company's effort to create prescription lenses for use with Google Glass.

And Vuzix, a Henrietta company making smart glasses, is continuing to expand and offer new innovative products, such as augmented reality glasses, video glasses and virtual reality glasses.

"I know that there are four or five Rochester companies that are involved in different levels with Google Glass, and I don't think that any of them want to talk about it," said Tom Battley, executive director of the Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster and New York Photonics.


“You look through these glasses and what you see is the real world, but augmented with other information. ”
— Paul Travers, CEO of Vuzix
"That's a pretty primo customer and you don't want to divulge anything that a primo customer is not OK with divulging," he said, adding that the local companies are involved in manufacturing, technology, systems, and "component-level stuff."

As some see it, these firms are already on the ground floor of an industry with sizeable long-term economic potential.

"This is the beginnings of a multi-billion dollar industry, and it's the guys that are out front that have the intellectual property that all stand a chance of doing pretty well with this," said Paul Travers, CEO of Vuzix, which he started in 1997.

"Some people come out and say Google is inventing this whole new category of product, but this technology, the idea of it, has been around forever," Travers said.

Vuzix began with a focus on defense industry by making night vision systems for DRS Technologies and Raytheon, both major defensed contractors. In 2004, Vuzix released the company's first wearable technology product for the consumer market.

"Some years we sold as many as 40,000 or 50,000 pieces. Today we have offices in the UK, we have offices in Japan, we sell our products worldwide. We're in 50-some countries," Travers said.

Vuzix glasses provide on-screen instructions to workers to help find items in warehouses and provide assistance during service calls. Vuzix also makes devices for entertainment, to watch movies and play advanced video games, such as flight simulators.

"You can watch movies, do augmented reality and virtual reality with them," Travers said.

Vuzix glasses are smaller and less bulky than in the past. The device resembles sunglasses, but will have batteries and CPUs to serve as a wearable computer, and if needed, can be outfitted with prescription lenses.

"We're convinced that in the mass market, until these things look like conventional glasses, they're not going to be for everybody. It's one of the biggest concerns people have about Google Glass right now," he said.


Tom Hasselberg, of Spencerport works in an area at Vuzix.(Photo: Jamie Germano/staff photographer)


Massive numbers

Still, the smart glass business is in its infancy.

"The ultimate goal is you're walking down the street, you're getting directional information in front of you," Travers said.

"You look through these glasses and what you see is the real world, but augmented with other information," he added. "That's the ultimate goal of these glasses. An example is a language translation where you hold up the menu and what you're seeing in the menu through these glasses is in English but it's all in Japanese. You'll sit in your living room and characters will step out of your TV set."

Vuzix has about 35 employees, including about a dozen engineers who design and develop products at the Henrietta location. But products, such as smart glasses, are expected to generate jobs for thousands of developers who create apps for the devices.

While Google may become the dominant player in the market, the market will be big enough for others.

"Google's going to make Glass successful. I think they'll sell millions of them, but think about it, there's a billion smart phones sold every year. It's a massive number, and to think that everybody is going to wear Google Glass, I don't think that will be the case," Travers said.

In November, Rochester Optical hired Moore, the founder of Wilmington, N.C.-based Venture Glass, a Google Glass research and product development firm. Moore joined Rochester Optical's marketing and technology teams, and works with the company's research and development team in wearable technology.

Rochester Optical is developing custom lenses for use with Google Glass.

Google Glass is not yet widely available to consumers, but has been made available to about 40,000 buyers serving as a test market. Five such users, including Moore, work at Rochester Optical and they all wear prescription eyeglasses.

"If you want Google Glass, and you want prescriptions for them that are stylish, that are in frames, we're going to have versions for men and versions for women. They'll be very stylish and colorful, and they'll match your glass and so forth," Moore said. "We've got hundreds on the waiting list now and we're trying to ramp up so that as soon as we say we're ready we can start fulfilling them pretty fast."

Moore said he attended a wearable technology conference in Los Angeles recently where "the big acknowledgment was that we're just starting in this effort, this wearable technology stuff."

"The biggest thing that people are looking for is obstacle-free experiences and communication," he said. "Right now the phone requires us to take our eyes off the road, or to look away from someone to look at your device. A wearable headset doesn't require any of that."


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wie gesagt. Die kleine News machen immer sehr viel aus, deshalb kommt unsere Baby auch immer zum Schluss auf die Beine...sehr schön, freue mich schon auf morgen.
Ach eins noch diese Baby wird meine Rente...so Long vor ever  

nach oben hin alles passieren ;-))  

wie ich schon des Öfteren geschrieben habe erster Ziel 8-10€...des weiteren  wird sich der Kurs dort einpendeln und je News weiter die Reise gen Norden antreten-Gewinnmitnahmen hin und her das ist wohl Normal. Aber ich bin sehr entspannt und mal schauen wo das Baby in 1-2 Jahren steht.  

gingen alle in den Bereich 8-10$, sieht man schön im Chart. lasse die Dinger auch erst mal laufen ;-))  

Wie kann eine Aktie um +35.064% steigen?
Etwa alle 10 Jahre tritt ein Unternehmen auf die Bildfläche, dass die Welt aus den Angeln hebt. Und dabei seine Investoren reich macht. Steinreich. Hier die letzten Beispiele:
1985: Microsoft
1996: Google
2004: Facebook
2014 ist es wieder so weit: In 10 Jahren schauen wir auf diese Aktie zurück und sind noch immer erstaunt über diese atemberaubende Kursentwicklung
2014:Vuzix....

was mein ihr?  

hoffen wir es!!!
Zu wünschen wäre es uns ja!!! :-)))  

War es nicht so geplant, dass die M100 1. früher als Google-Glass und 2. auch günstiger zu erhalten sein sollte?

1. wurde ja eingehalten, aber 2. scheint mir mit 999 Dollar doch nicht so ganz einzuhalten gewesen zu sein.

Was meint Ihr. Laut Forum bei Investorshub soll Google-Glass wohl im kommenden April für 600 Dollar auf den Markt kommen.

Andere Technik hin oder her... meint Ihr, Vuzix zieht beim Preis dann nach?

Danke für Eure Statement  

Investorshub.....

Google glass war mit 1500 US Dollar im Gespräch, jetzt fast für ein Drittel, glaub ich nicht!

Jeder will was verdienen und nicht draufzahlen!  

 

http://www.wiwo.de/technologie/forschung/...-kommen-2014/9248660.html

 

Vuzix ist momentan auf allen Kanäle zu sehen alle sprechen von Vuzix dat wird wohl morgen mal so richtig abgehen  

Wahnsinn geht weiter, danke für gute Info´s hier in Forum  

Ihr wart ja auch noch am Sonntag fleißig. So macht das wirklich Spaß hier.

Tolle Zusammenarbeit. Danke an alle.

Stuttgart startet mit 3,366 €
Berlin dagegen gemächlich mit 3,28 €, wenn ich es richtig gesehen habe. :-)

Auf ne interessante Woche und weiterhin so gute Recherchen.    

ich bin gespannt wo wir heute in USA eröffne  

.... falls jemand von Euh eine Vuzix Brille kaufen möchte ...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_8_5/...zix%2Celectronics%2C371
 

ja das sieht wieder sehr gut aus...auf eine grüne Woche.  

denke heute werden wir die 5$ schon knacken-und ab morgen ist ja die Messe, kann nur noch besser werden.  

.. wurden vor 10 bzw. 11 Stunden mehrere, nicht brandaktuelle aber spannende Videos veröffentlicht (Datum 5.1.2014). Darunter dieses:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Sxe1neEAg

... da macht wohl jemand mächtig viel Pressearbeit  

... in der Medizin, Sport (Radfahren, Golf), Unterhaltung, Hoteltipps, Navi Fußgänger/Verkehr, beim Kochen ...

.. also Einspiegelung von Puls-Werten, Speed/Vergleich mit virtuellen Gegner, Entfernung zum Loch/Wahl des Schlägers, Tripadvisor, touristische Infos, Laufentfernung/-zeit bis zum Ziel, Abbiege-Vorgänge, Rezepte und Gesichtserkennung

Durch Antippen auf dem Bügel lässt sich sogar das Bild via Facebook teilen ...

http://youtu.be/DiTnMJZF2UY  

Berlin wieder 10% im plus und Stgt auch,vollumen zusammen gerechnet ist auch gut, denke heute wird eher ruhig da erst morgen die Messe ist-aber hier ist ja alles möglich.  

Stuttgart gibt aber gas..........geilllllll  

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hier nochmal-weil es so geil ist

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4.61 / 4.65(1 x 1)Why is size 1?  

Ich bin gespannt was bei den US-Jungs passiert zur Eröffnung. Wir werden zuerst wieder steigen, dann zieht man sie runter und am Ende grün, so meine heutige Einschätzung.

Mal sehen ob ich richtig liege. Sollte Vuzix sich entscheiden nur steigen zu wollen, so hat sie mein OK.