Wearable Technology Reports and Subscriptions

This report characterizes the optics for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR, AR and MR) devices, analyzing markets, technologies and players. It provides in-depth coverage individual optics technologies and forecasts their uptake in spatial computing from 2026 to 2036, alongside 10-year forecasts for the entire VR, AR and MR headset market. It outlines growing opportunity, with the VR, AR and MR headset market forecast to grow to US$22.6 billion by 2036.

Wearable sensors are fundamental to continuous monitoring of health, fitness, and wellness - as well as at the core of innovations for next generation human machine interface, industrial IoT and extended reality. As applications for wearable technology grow, there are increasing opportunities for sensors that can detect more advanced metrics, be integrated into novel form-factors, offer enhanced performance or demand less power and space. Based on a decade of market research on wearable technology hardware, this report analyses the technological and commercial landscape of this growing industry, both today and into the future. The Wearable Sensors Market 2025-2035 report provides insight into how this technology could be integrated into society long term, and forecasts the wearable sensors market to reach US$7.2 billion by 2035.

This report characterizes the brain computer interface market, technologies, and players. This includes coverage across non-invasive and invasive technologies, comparisons across key technical benchmarks, and market forecasts from 2025 to 2045. This research includes 20 company profiles including coverage of Neuralink and Blackrock Neurotech. This report leverages IDTechEx's wealth of insights into healthcare and consumer electronics markets. There is an analysis of the opportunities within assistive technology markets, as well as the broader wearable technology markets, specifically the augmented and virtual reality headset market. This report reveals an evolving opportunity for both non-invasive and invasive technologies across the next twenty years, with the overall brain computer interface market forecast to grow to over US$1.6bn by 2045.

This report serves as both a primer into the field of digital health, summarizing the findings across telehealth/telemedicine, remote patient monitoring (including diabetes management technologies), digital therapeutics, consumer health wearables, and AI in medical imaging diagnostics. The report provides profiles of over 135 companies active in the field, a detailed 10-year forecast of over 19 types of RPM technologies, and a 40-year outlook on the uptake of AI in imaging diagnostics across 13 therapeutic areas.

This report characterizes the display industry for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) devices, analyzing markets, technologies and players. It provides in-depth coverage of seven individual display technologies and forecasts their uptake in spatial computing from 2024 to 2034, alongside ten-year forecasts and historic data from 2010 onwards for the entire VR/AR/MR headset market. It outlines growing opportunity, with the VR/AR/MR display market forecast to grow to US$4.6B by 2034.

This report is the culmination of IDTechEx's market and technology research in wearable technology over the past decade. It contains high level overviews and data of the major themes, product trends and drivers across all wearables sectors; as well as all of the collated conclusions and market data across sectors including smartwatches & fitness trackers, VR, AR & MR, hearables, smart clothing & e-textiles, electronic skin patches, and many other product types.

This report assesses the market for e-textiles across key application areas of biometric monitoring, textile heating, and textile lighting, among others. It considers the value added by e-textiles in sectors such as healthcare, medical, wellness, and fitness. Manufacturing methods for e-textiles through conductive fibers and conductive inks are detailed and evaluated.

This report characterizes the electronic skin patches markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across 13 electronic skin patch application areas, historic market data from 2010-2022 and market forecasts from 2023 to 2033, it is the most comprehensive study compiled for this product area. It reveals significant opportunity, with the electronic skin patch market forecast to grow to over $27bn by 2033.

Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality devices promise to revolutionize the way we interact, acting as key gateways to the metaverse. This report builds a picture of these technologies today, quantitively examining development trends to date and outlining both future directions and technical challenges. The changing role of computing and connectivity is discussed, with component technologies including optics, displays, sensing, and haptics analyzed.