Meta’s investments in virtual and augmented reality projects could reportedly exceed $100 billion this year. This spending comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees 2025 as the “defining year” for the company’s smart glasses, the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday (Feb. 3). Meta last year invested nearly $20 billion...
Apple has reportedly shut down plans to develop augmented reality glasses connected to its computers. The project, cancelled this week, would have created a product that resembled normal glasses but which included built-in displays and required a connection to a Mac, Bloomberg reported Friday (Jan....
Get ready for B2B wearables. Polar is taking wearable tech beyond the fitness enthusiast with the recent launch of Polar 360, a new business-to-business platform designed to help companies boost employee health and productivity. Offering a suite of devices — from fitness trackers to smartwatches...
The connected economy might be making a jump from end-users’ hands to their faces. That is, if Big Tech’s biggest representatives are to be believed. On Thursday (Dec. 12), Google introduced a new Android operating system (OS) built for extended reality (XR) devices like headsets...
September 30, 2024
Will consumers one day wear commerce on their faces? Meta, which last week debuted its highly anticipated Orion augmented reality (AR) glasses, appears to think so. Due to advances in technology and material science allowing Meta to leverage a refractive material called silicon carbide to create holographic AR displays laid atop real-life surroundings, an improvement over the […]
September 19, 2024
The augmented reality and smart tech wearable market is heating up as Google, Snap, and Meta have recently either unveiled products or announced partnerships to develop wearables and adding artificial...
August 01, 2024
Apple’s latest quarter showed some resilience in services growth – and management noted the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to help transform the company’s efforts to build out its ecosystem....
March 07, 2024
Led by names like Google, Apple and Samsung, the wearables category of the connected economy has become a study in contradictions. New, high-profile introductions have accelerated due to recent events...
February 03, 2025
Meta’s investments in virtual and augmented reality projects could reportedly exceed $100 billion this year. This spending comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees 2025 as the “defining year” for the company’s smart glasses, the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday (Feb. 3). Meta last year invested nearly $20 billion in its Reality Labs unit last year, the report said, […]
January 31, 2025
Apple has reportedly shut down plans to develop augmented reality glasses connected to its computers. The project, cancelled this week, would have created a product that resembled normal glasses but...
December 10, 2024
Apple is looking to expand the texting capabilities of its smartwatches by enabling users to send texts through a satellite connection in 2025. This means that users can communicate with...
November 05, 2024
Apple is reportedly exploring the viability of entering the smart glasses market. The tech giant has launched an in-house study of currently available products, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Nov. 4)....
