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die deutschen schätzen wertarbeit .... siehe auch SAP

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK -- (December 23, 2013) – Vuzix® Corporation (OTCQB: VUZI), a leading supplier of Video Eyewear and Smart Glasses products in the enterprise and consumer markets, today announced a joint collaboration agreement with Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG, Germany. Both companies will explore marketing and co-development efforts utilizing Vuzix experience and IP in optics and wearable technology and Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG’s experience and IP for personal protective eyewear; with a goal to advance the current state of Smart Glasses technology and develop integrated innovative solutions for enterprise users. As a first effort, Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses will be bundled with a pair of Vuzix branded i3 safety glasses and custom mounting hardware for using the M100 on either the left or right eye which is designed and manufactured by Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co KG, Germany.



“The current Smart Glasses revolution is bringing companies together that hold significant IP in their respective industries,” said Vuzix President and CEO Paul Travers. “Uniquely in this case, many of the enterprise and medical market customers for Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses require safety glasses of some type. This makes the collaboration between Vuzix and Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG, Germany a perfect fit as the parties offer best in class solutions for personal protective eyewear, wearable displays and smart glasses.”



Recently Vuzix announced availability of the Smart Glasses M100. The M100 contains a virtual display with integrated camera and powerful processing engine, running the Android® OS, to wirelessly connect via BT or WiFi to your smartphone (iOS® or Android) or other compatible device. Designed to run applications in standalone operation or connected to the internet, the M100 works in harmony with your smartphone to open a plethora of existing and future applications. These include enterprise applications where the M100 plays a practical role in a wide variety of situations, ranging from warehousing, airports, hospitals and more.



The M100 Smart Glasses are now available for order on the Vuzix website for $999.99 and includes an OEM version of Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG, Germany protective eyewear.

“Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG prides itself on providing the best in class products,” said Stefan Brück, CEO Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG, Germany. “Our motto, “protecting people” is what drives our innovation and technology partnerships. We believe that our developing relationship with Vuzix is in the best interest of our company and customers. We are excited by the possibilities of the new products that are being contemplated through this collaboration.”

About Vuzix Corporation

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[chanson]

Fast 2000 Euro für eine neue Studie über den Zukunftsmarkt "Global Head-mounted Displays Market 2014-2018": The key vendors dominating this market space are Elbit Systems Ltd., eMagin Corp., Kopin Corp., Sony Corp., and Vuzix Corp. !

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9vntsl/global

The analysts forecast the Global Head-mounted Displays market to grow at a CAGR of 68.2 percent over the period 2013-2018. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing adoption of head-mounted displays in the Consumer Electronics sector. The Global Head-mounted Displays market has also been witnessing the increasing number of augmented reality products. However, the high ownership cost of head-mounted displays could pose a challenge to the growth of this market

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Diverse Auszeichnungen. zB "Marke des Jahrhunderts" !

http://www.uvex-safety.com/de/uvex-safety-group/auszeichnung…

UVEX_Schutzbrillen:

http://www.uvex-safety.com/de/produkte/schutzbrillen/schutzb…

[chanson]

Gefällt mir gut die Strategie, diese Partnerschaften binden Know-How und Kontakte anderer Unternehmen ein, so daß VUZIX sich um die wesentlichen Dinge kümmern kann. Beim Marketing scheinen Sie ähnlich vorzugehen, wie die Partner-Links für "Media Contact Infos" verraten:

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[CREO]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.103.851 von Magnetfeldfredy am 23.12.13 13:11:31

Sehr gut! Einen besseren partner als uvex wird man weltweit kaum finden.

[Magnetfeldfredy]

Vuzix, das sind super news, Uvex ist nicht irgendwer:

VUZIX Partners With Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG
VUZIX/Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG, Germany Co-Developing Technology and Solutions for Smart Glasses
PR Newswire Vuzix Corporation
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix® Corporation (VUZI), a leading supplier of Video Eyewear and Smart Glasses products in the enterprise and consumer markets, today announced a joint collaboration agreement with Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG, Germany. Both companies will explore marketing and co-development efforts utilizing Vuzix experience and IP in optics and wearable technology and Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG's experience and IP for personal protective eyewear; with a goal to advance the current state of Smart Glasses technology and develop integrated innovative solutions for enterprise users. As a first effort, Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses will be bundled with a pair of Vuzix branded i3 safety glasses and custom mounting hardware for using the M100 on either the left or right eye which is designed and manufactured by Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co KG, Germany.

(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131223/NY37607)
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130516/NY15123LOGO)

"The current Smart Glasses revolution is bringing companies together that hold significant IP in their respective industries," said Vuzix President and CEO Paul Travers. "Uniquely in this case, many of the enterprise and medical market customers for Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses require safety glasses of some type. This makes the collaboration between Vuzix and Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG, Germany a perfect fit as the parties offer best in class solutions for personal protective eyewear, wearable displays and smart glasses."

Recently Vuzix announced availability of the Smart Glasses M100. The M100 contains a virtual display with integrated camera and powerful processing engine, running the Android® OS, to wirelessly connect via BT or WiFi to your smartphone (iOS® or Android) or other compatible device. Designed to run applications in standalone operation or connected to the internet, the M100 works in harmony with your smartphone to open a plethora of existing and future applications. These include enterprise applications where the M100 plays a practical role in a wide variety of situations, ranging from warehousing, airports, hospitals and more.

The M100 Smart Glasses are now available for order on the Vuzix website for $999.99 and includes an OEM version of Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG, Germany protective eyewear.

"Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG prides itself on providing the best in class products," said Stefan Bruck, CEO Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG, Germany. "Our motto, "protecting people" is what drives our innovation and technology partnerships. We believe that our developing relationship with Vuzix is in the best interest of our company and customers. We are excited by the possibilities of the new products that are being contemplated through this collaboration."

About Vuzix Corporation
Vuzix is a leading supplier of Video Eyewear and Smart Glasses products in the consumer, commercial and entertainment markets. The Company's products include personal displays, smart glasses and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high quality viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable displays and virtual and augmented reality. Vuzix holds 36 patents and 12 additional patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the Video Eyewear field. The Company has won Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation for the years 2005 to 2013 and several wireless technology innovation awards, among others. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company (VUZI:QB) with offices in Rochester, NY, Oxford, UK and Tokyo, Japan.

Forward-Looking Statements Disclaimer
Certain statements contained in this news release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward looking statements contained in this release relate to potential outcome of the development partnership around the M100 Smart Glasses, future business, the value of the IP portfolio, among other things, and the Company's leadership in the Video Eyewear and AR display industry. They are generally identified by words such as "believes," "may," "expects," "anticipates," "should" and similar expressions. Readers should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are based upon the Company's beliefs and assumptions as of the date of this release. The Company's actual results could differ materially due to risk factors and other items described in more detail in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Reports and MD&A filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and applicable Canadian securities regulators (copies of which may be obtained at www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). Subsequent events and developments may cause these forward-looking statements to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation or intention to update or revise these forward-looking statements as a result of changed events or circumstances that occur after the date of this release, except as required by applicable law.

About The Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG having its seat in Fuerth, Germany is a 100 % subsidiary of the Uvex Winter Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Germany. The Uvex Winter Holding GmbH & Co. KG brings together three globally active companies under one roof: the Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co.KG, the Uvex Sports Group GmbH & Co. KG and Filtral GmbH & Co. Vertriebs KG. The business of the Uvex Winter Holding GmbH & Co. KG is represented in 22 countries by 41 subsidiaries in Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa but chooses to do most of its manufacturing in Germany. Two thirds of the company's 2,075-strong workforce (as of 30 June 2012) is employed in Germany. Uvex Sports Group GmbH & Co. KG is a global partner to international elite sport and equips a host of top athletes. The motto "protecting people" is at the heart of the company's activities.

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VUZIX Partners With Uvex Safety Group GmbH & Co. KG

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/vuzix-partners-uvex-safety-gro…

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Why the Wearables Revolution Won’t Be Like the Smartphone ‘Dogfight’
Mike Elgan (4:22 pm PDT, Dec 22nd)



A new book called Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution by Fred Vogelstein revealed the mechanism by which Apple influenced the direction of Android — shock and awe.

Yes, the introduction of the iPhone changed the direction of smartphones. But I don’t think it’s going to happen again in the wearables market. Here’s why.

The Smartphone Dogfight

Former Android chief Andy Rubin (also co-founder and former CEO of both Danger and Android, the company Google bought), said that he was at CES in Las Vegas when the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at Macworld 2007 in San Francisco. Rubin was watching the stream live in a car on his way to a meeting

At the time, Google was planning to launch an Android phone with HTC called Sooner. The phone had a physical keyboard. But when Rubin saw the iPhone launch, he told another Googler that: “I guess we’re not going to ship that phone.”

In a follow-up interview with the Atlantic, Google’s Chris DeSalvo said that “as a consumer I was blown away. I wanted one immediately. But as a Google engineer, I thought ‘We’re going to have to start over.’”

Of course, Apple didn’t invent the general concept of a keyboardless multitouch user interface. In fact, multi-touch displays were invented at various universities in the early 1980s. Famously, the LG Prada multitouch smartphone beat iPhone to market.

Google itself was already working on a somewhat iPhone-like multi-touch smartphone (which also had a keyboard when you slid the touch-screen up) called Dream, in addition to the BlackBerry-like Sooner project, according to one engineer’s account.

The phone names might have been a reference to the Google vision for Android: Sooner was the get-it-to-market-fast phone, based on an existing HTC design, where as Dream was just that: Google’s dream phone — the longer-term vision for Android, or at least an interim phone between keyboard and touch-screen types. (I guess “Dream” as a follow-on to “Sooner” sounded better than the name “Later.”)

It appears then, that Apple’s influence was not so much about what Apple did, but how and when they did it. The iPhone’s minimalism and elegance, as well as the polish and small details of the user interface, provided the “shock and awe” which, although may not have radically changed the direction of Google’s phone and phone OS development ideas, at least focused and accelerated it.

Later, Apple would influence the industry again with its App Store — again, not the broad idea but the polish and elegance of how they did it.

As we look back at the history of the smartphone revolution and think about how we got to where we are now, we look forward to the coming wearables revolution and wonder whether it will all go down in the same way.

Why Wearables Won’t Wait for Apple

The year 2014 is going to usher in a wearables revolution that most people can barely imagine at this point. The tsunami of announcements will start at CES in Las Vegas on January 7 and the tide will continue rising all year.

To the best of my knowledge, the following companies have products, plans or patents for smartwatches, with most of them shipping by the end of 2014: Acer, AGENT, Androidly, Apple, Appscomm, Cookoo, Dell, EmoPulse, FiLIP, Foxconn, GEAK, Google, Goophone, Hot, Hyetis, I’m Watch, Intel, inWatch, Kreyos, LG, Martian, Metawatch, Microsoft, MyKronoz, Neptune, Nissan, Nokia, Omate, Pebble, PHTL, Qualcomm, Rearden Technology, Rock, Samsung, Sonostar, Sony, sWaP, Toshiba, Umeox, Vachen, Xiaomi and ZTE.

That’s just watches. I also believe the following companies have products, plans or patents for smart glasses: Apple, Atheer, Baidu, Epiphany Eyewear, GlassUp, Google, Icis, ION, Lumus, Meta, Microsoft, Oakley, Optinvent, Recon Instruments, Samsung, Sony, Technical Illusions and Vuzix.

And don’t even get me started on the other form factors for wearable computing, including clip-ons; devices embedded into hats, shoes and clothing; heads up displays for goggles, masks other gear; and more that we can’t even imagine yet.

I believe history will not repeat itself with the Apple-Android “dogfight” in the coming wearables market.

The reason is that while smartphones started out with all kinds of variety in terms of size, shape, form-factor and feature set, then devolved into a shocking sameness, the wearables market will always be characterized by variety in the extreme.

I do believe Apple is likely to ship an iWatch, and can’t help but assume that it will have the highest market share. Why will the iWatch succeed? Because: 1) fanboys; 2) Apple’s clear intent to make the iWatch a fashion accessory; 3) women; 4) iPhone integration; and 5) marketing.

Despite likely market share and revenue success with the iWatch, I don’t believe Apple’s product will influence the industry the way the iPhone did.

For starters, and despite its smart glass patents, Apple probably won’t do a Google Glass competitor. It just doesn’t seem mass-market enough or mainstreamy enough for Apple.

Second, Apple probably won’t do random form factors, either. A smart watch will probably be Apple’s only entry in the wearables market for the foreseeable future.

Third, I expect the smartwatch category to be roughly divided between more powerful but lower battery-life watches and less powerful but longer battery-life bracelets. And I’m guessing Apple’s will lean toward the bracelet side of the market. The reason is that Apple can be expected to create a single device for everybody, including women and children with wrists too small to wear big, clunky smartwatches.

While a small, elegant iWatch may prove popular, it may not be influential because every company will try to differentiate with wild combinations of form-factors and features.

The smartwatch category itself may resemble the dumb wristwatch industry, with incredible variety in size, shape and function. Beyond that, I suspect some watches may work together with other devices, such as smart glasses and others to create a personal-area network of wearable functionality. For example, a wristwatch may hold the control interface for the smart glasses.

The amount people will be willing to pay will vary, too. Looking just at the minority of smart glasses gadgets where the prices have already been announced, the price ranges from the $79 ION Glasses to the $3,000 Meta 1 product.

In most cases, wearable computing gadgets will be peripheral devices for smartphones. In others, they will replace smartphones. But with the smartphone providing all the basic capabilities for most of these products — internet connectivity, location, photography, powerful processing and app control — the wearable computing products will be free to specialize or focus on various functions unrelated to the basic features of a smartphone.

In other words, while smartphones are forced to do all the basic functions of a smartphone — and thereby end up being very similar to each other — wearable devices will extend this feature or add that feature. They’ll be free to specialize and differentiate in ways that smartphone handsets are not free to do.

In any event, history will probably not repeat itself as with the smartphone era. It’s going to be the Wild West in form, function, features and price and stay that way for years.

That’s a good thing, and one that favors Android developers, small inventors and genius startups able to think way outside the box.

In short, the wearables market will be way more fun than the smartphone market. And I, for one, am really looking forward to 2014 and the crazy new world of wearable computing.

Quelle: http://www.cultofandroid.com/48537/wearables-revolution-wont…

[LongAndProsper]

A Full Day of Google Glass
https://medium.com/p/9eb98f58b838

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Augmented Reality Is Almost Everywhere
December 23, 2013



There is less difference between our work and home devices, our tablets and our mobile phones. They are not meant for “work” or for the “home.” We just use them wherever we are. The idea of a balance or even the concept of an enterprise hardware manufacturer seems quaint.

The difference, really, is in the applications we choose to apply with these things we wear over our eyes and hold in our hands. Hardware like Google Glass and Atheer Labs 3D Augmented Reality glasses are all badass, of course. But the data is the special sauce that makes these tools work for us. Like the smartphone, augmented reality is also something neither for work or at home. Instead it’s a layer that can be applied to our home and work life.

And now just as we saw with smartphone and tablets, examples are emerging that show how augmented reality is applying in universal ways.

For example, in the workplace the complexity of repair gets simplified when the various mechanical parts get treated as something digital. An animated wrench can be shown how to be used on a piece of heavy equipment that has also been rendered into a data object. Like smartphones, augmented reality can be used anywhere to get work done.

ResolutionTube, a TechStars Seattle startup, has raised $ 1.5 million in seed funding for an augmented reality app that helps the technician fix everything from a heating vent to sophisticated medical equipment. Madrona Ventures led the investment with participation from TechStars CEO David Cohen and other angel investors.

The company is targeting the field services market with a knowledge base and a smartphone app that a technician can use to fix things without needing to call a toll-free number for help. Instead, the technician can use the app to scan the serial number that connects to the ResolutionTube knowledge base. If the technician gets stuck, the app can be used to contact an expert who connects with the the technician over video. The technician uses the smartphone camera to show the expert the machinery in question. That is followed with some advice and use of a whiteboard to draw and show what the technician needs to do for the issue to get resolved.

ResolutionTube will use the funding to develop new advanced product features like as superimposing 3D models into video. The vision is to create an augmented reality experience that instructs people how to repair items simply by pointing a device at whatever needs to be fixed. Currently the app listens to the worker and the expert. It then pulls out keywords that gets stored in the knowledge base. The next step is to use natural language processing so the entire conversation can be added to the ResolutionTube information network. The transition will help ResolutionTube answer questions more so than provide a search capability.

The company is also creating a prototype app on Google Glass. With wearables they can work and get the instructions without having to use their hands to hold a device. Companies like Vuzix have even developed their own eyewear, showing how the market is expanding for augmented reality technologies to serve a workforce that has almost universal connectivity.

Metaio provides another example for how augmented reality is changing the way people work. The company developed an augmented reality app for technicians to do service and repair work on the Volkswagen XLI, the company’s latest concept car. The app shows the technician how to repair the car without any prior training.




Devices now enable augmented reality in the way people have always wanted to experience it, said Occipatal Co-Founder Vikas Reddy in an email interview. The company has developed Structure, a 3D sensor that customers can strap to the back of their iPads. The 3D sensor, small enough to fit in your pocket, has an SDK for developers to build consumer-facing apps that take advantage of 3D data.


The future of augmented reality is tied to devices like the iPad. But that’s just the foundation for a next generation of apps. These apps will leverage endless stores of data that will take the form of physical objects and provide people with expert knowledge that will be immediately available. This will allow us to see the world in whole new ways and forever transform how we live and work.

Quelle: http://gizmotechnews.com/augmented-reality-is-almost-everywh…