Smart Glasses - Enterprise Applications And Opportunities In AR (Wearable USA 2016)

What are the valuable opportunities for smart glasses in the enterprise? Technological advances merging the physical and digital worlds is shaping our human experiences. Smart glasses have evolved from Google Glasses to rich binocular. Enterprises have been learning about use cases that best fit the available technology. Current smart glasses are adding significant value for many applications in enterprises. Future advancements in optical performance, 3-D capabilities, authoring capabilities, new interaction methods, along with cheaper and lighter headsets will define their future success and opportunity in the market. This talk will review the progression of technology and how the industry has embraced the change to empower and unlock the power of human productivity.

Samir is a 5-time software/Internet entrepreneur, with management experience at Microsoft, IBM Lotus and P&G. Samir has repeatedly been at the core of successful startups. Most recently, as CEO of WaveMaker, Samir turned around a technology acquisition from VMware into an award winning 100-person startup providing a Rapid App Development and Delivery (RADD) platform for enterprise web & mobile apps. Prior, Samir launched and successfully sold Qontext (enterprise social collab) to Autodesk (NASDAQ:ADSK) in 2 years.

 

Samir has a BS in CS from WPI, an MBA from UCLA Anderson, and an International Business Degree from Stockholm School of Economics.

Atheer is the pioneer of AiR™ (Augmented interactive Reality) computing that is designed to enhance enterprise deskless worker productivity by combining the power of immersive augmented reality with intelligent gesture, voice and head-motion interaction, all on a mobile, smart glasses platform.

Wearing our award-winning Atheer AiR™ SmartGlasses, critical workflow information is overlaid onto the real world, providing natural device interaction and improved peer collaboration. Leveraging the Atheer AiR smart glasses platform, developers and companies around the world are creating next generation enterprise productivity applications and workflows to empower the 21st century workforce.

Based in Mountain View, CA, Atheer is backed by prominent investors, including Bobby Yazdani, Co-Founder of Saba Software, and Farzad Naimi, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of RONA Holdings, and is a founding member of the AREA - Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance. For more information, please visit http://www.atheerlabs.comand follow us on Twitter, and like us on Facebook and LinkedIn.