Wearable Technology

Opening the IDTechEx Show! on November 20-21 at the Santa Clara Convention Center are three cornerstone speakers, highlighting key progress and future visions across the topics covered at the event.

Manus VR have developed glove accessories for VR including hand tracking and haptics. IDTechEx spoke with Sophie Kramer, Serdal Yeter and Alex Bertrand at their booth at AWE EU 2019.

IDTechEx interviewed Sophie Kyounghee Son, Project Manager at Looxid Labs at their booth at AWE EU 2019.

IDTechEx spoke to Jorg Walther at the Lenovo booth at AWE EU 2019. They demonstrated and promoted their ThinkReality AR headset and software platform at their booth and in presentations

Hawk XR are a contract designer and manufacturer of VR and AR products. The company is based in Irrel, Germany and employs around 15 people full time, plus additional contractors depending on the exact project.

Dispelix was founded in 2011, and span out of VTT in 2015. IDTechEx visited their booth at AWE EU 2019 to learn about their latest progress in setting up their manufacturing facility for their waveguide products.

IDTechEx attended a presentation by Daniel Zeitman, Senior Developer Advocate in Bose's AR team. He presented on Bose's suite of products around "audio augmented reality".

An elastic film that easily recovers its original shape and size after folding and rolling. Diverse potential applications include displays and wearable devices.

IDTechEx attended a presentation of the latest developments from Continental in heads-up displays (HUD) for vehicles.

At AWE EU 2019, IDTechEx attended a presentation from HTC and Tobii. They introduced the Vive Pro Eye, a custom version of the HTC Vive Cosmos headset which includes eye tracking from Tobii.

IDTechEx spoke to Dr Nick Rimmer, Business Development Director at ADLens. They have developed adaptive lenses, and are seeing particular success in the VR and AR/XR spaces.

A jacket that silences incoming calls when its sleeve is plucked. A bandage that sounds an alarm when the joint is bent too much. These are two of many applications that are only possible with stretchable circuits.

The general trend in electronics is towards smaller and faster devices. Now something different is coming to market. The new competitive frontier is form factor: flexible, stretchable and structural electronics.

IDTechEx Technology Analyst Dr Charlotte Coles and Principal Analyst James Hayward visited AWE EU 2019 between the 17th-18th October 2019 in Munich, Germany, to investigate current trends and companies in the AR/VR/MR market.

Faro SpA has relied on Comau to reduce the fatigue of its workers. MATE is an exoskeleton developed by Comau to relieve shoulder stress for operators who often keep their arms overhead, even when not lifting weights.

Varjo Technologies announced it has doubled its product line offerings with two new state-of-the-art VR headsets - the VR-2 and the VR-2 Pro. These two new products (in addition to the VR-1 and XR-1) are part of Varjo's 'Resolution Revolution', a product line committed to delivering human eye-resolution (over 60 PPD) and fidelity to the most demanding sectors of the professional market.

RxFunction, the medical device company that created Walkasins®, is announcing expansion of its walk2Wellness study to include researchers at Hebrew SeniorLife, with enrollment of its first participant completed earlier this month.

Wearable biosensors that non-invasively monitor health and fitness are growing in popularity among adults. However, adapting this technology for use with babies is difficult, now researchers say they have developed a pacifier-based biosensor that tracks real-time glucose levels in saliva.

On November 20 & 21 the IDTechEx Show! opens in the Santa Clara convention center to 3,500 people representing technology scouts and innovation managers from global brands to suppliers from across the value chain.

Wearable technology devices seek to provide value in the augmentation of the wearer by design and function. From this perspective, electronic skin patches are a particularly interesting device type, anchoring the device to the skin in order for it to achieve a specific function.