Smart glasses show promise as next big tech gadget
Every year smart glasses threaten to become the next big thing in tech. Could Facebook or a smaller player like Vuzix make this happen? The promise of smart glasses is an alluring prospect. Imagine seeing and doing everything on your glasses that you would normally see and do on your smartphone. And a lot more. For instance, imagine following directions on your glasses as you text your friend your location. Then you arrive at a coffee shop, which the glasses recognize, and up pops a menu. Then you snap a photo of the shop and send it off. Inside, you sit down but instead of pulling out your laptop, you begin editing a document on a virtual screen and keyboard. That’s the future. Vuzix, which has been selling smart glasses since 2011, offers smart glasses now and is slated to bring out a major upgrade this year. Those glasses will offer smartphone integration, immersive sound, and tiny micro-LED projectors – which provide the images you see. They will also offer augmented reality (AR), ...