Wearable Technology

IDTechEx's Sensors report provides extensive analysis of the global sensor market, including 58 company profiles and insights collected from over 20 related sensor reports. Summarizing IDTechEx's extensive sensors report portfolio, this research contains over 35 sensor technology SWOT analyses, 24 technology readiness level roadmaps, material requirements and supplier information across future mobility, IoT, wearables, biomedical, edge computing, environmental sensing and more.

IDTechEx attended a presentation given by the CTO, Hanan Shamir.

DigiLens presented on its latest SRG+ technology.

Samsung unveiled its latest VR headset and plans for AI smart glasses on the 21st of October 2025.

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Accessing health metrics during any hour of the day is becoming the new norm as wearable technology is gaining traction and becoming increasingly widespread. This article covers some of the most popular wearable types alongside some newer, emerging applications.

Optix are a Chinese start-up working on the development of AR and VR optical technology.

In March 2025, Lumus presented 'Optical efficiency of geometric waveguides for MicroLED's, which also highlighted some of the developments Lumus is making for its waveguide and optical engine technologies.

IDTechEx spoke to Lucas Klamer, Co-founder and Head of Sales.

IDTechEx spoke to Erhan Ercan, Morphotonics' Head of Global Business Development for an update on the business and technology.

IDTechEx watched Evan Spiegel, Co-Founder and CEO, give an update on the latest AR business developments at Snap during a keynote talk at AWE 2025.

Around the clock access to health metrics, made accessible by wearable devices for consumers, is revolutionizing fitness optimization and healthcare in a non-invasive way. This article covers different wearable devices, and the many types of sensors and their primary applications.

Mark Zuckerberg spoke at Meta Connect 2025 to present future business plans and intentions for Meta.

IDTechEx attended an SPIE hosted webinar in December 2024, in which Optiark gave a business update.

Optinvent has developed an injection molded plastic reflective waveguide. The latest waveguide product will be demoed in an AR device at SPIE in January 2026.

Sensor technologies are advancing and being developed to detect things from human facial expressions and mood, all the way down to the tiny scale of particles on a quantum level. This article explores sensing technologies across different sectors including automotives, consumer devices, and quantum.

Achieving continuity and efficiency with biometrics and health data can be achieved with wearables. This article explores some of the main devices in the wearables market today including smart watches, and others which are emerging, such as smart gumshields.

Bayflex Solutions is a printed and flexible electronics testing and automation service supplier based in the San Francisco bay area, California. Bayflex provides off-the-shelf and custom flexible electronics testing, with interchangeable mechatronics and hostile environment integration. Bayflex provides testing solutions into flexible display and electronics, wearable devices, e-textiles, medical and automobile industries. IDTechEx spoke with Bayflex CEO Eisuke Tsuyuzaki.

Arm is a Cambridge-based fabless chip designer whose CPU, GPU, and NPU blueprints are licensed to hundreds of semiconductor partners, powering roughly 99% of the world's smartphones, as well as an expanding range of data center, automotive and edge-AI devices.