“The first augmented-reality glasses with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant will be shown next week at CES in Las Vegas — manufactured by a 75-employee company rather than the e-commerce giant’s growing devices division,” Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg. “Vuzix Corp. will show off a pair of smart glasses that can talk to Amazon.com Inc.’s voice-activated digital assistant and display information to the wearer’s field of view, Vuzix Chief Executive Officer Paul Travers said in an interview. ”
“Vuzix’s Alexa integration is part of an Amazon program that allows third-party hardware manufacturers to put the digital assistant into their products,” Gurman reports. “In October, Sonos Inc. unveiled a smart speaker with Alexa’s system for controlling music playback. The strategy is designed to put Amazon’s service, which generates revenue for the company, in as many places as possible to sell more products.”
“Vuzix will release its AR glasses by the second quarter at a cost of about $1,000, Travers said. While it’s a ‘high price point,’ he said, ‘the ultimate goal is to have it under $500, and we’ll be able to do that’ by 2019. Wearers, who must be Amazon customers or become Amazon customers to enable Alexa’s capabilities, could for example ask the digital assistant to pull up a map or display sports scores on the glasses,” Gurman reports. “Apple is aiming to have the technology ready for its own augmented reality glasses by 2019 so that it can release a device by 2020, Bloomberg News reported last year.”
MacDailyNews Take: Vuzix Blade 3000 Smart Sunglasses. For when you want to look like a bass fisherman while getting beat up for wearing a camera in a bar.
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MacDailyNews Take: After the inevitable launch delay period passes, we can’t wait to ask our $2,500 Apple Glasses for the sports scores so Siri can tell us, “I can’t find a Starbucks location near you right now.”
With bated breath, we tell you, with bated breath!
Oh, alright, we’ll be positive (the beckoning glint off a keg rolling down the halls of the palatial MacDailyNews headquarters works every time)! So, maybe by 2020, Apple will finally have their shit together, Siri won’t still be riding the short bus to AI school, and real artists will ship something insanely great – and on time, even!
Interns: Make it so.
SEE ALSO:
Hey Siri, Google Assistant is winning in Artificial Intelligence and it’s not even close – October 11, 2017
Cornell study: Google AI boasts much higher IQ than Apple’s Siri – October 5, 2017
Siri, why have you fallen behind other digital assistants? – October 5, 2017
Apple smart glasses are inevitable – July 28, 2017
Gene Munster: Apple Glasses will soon outshine the iPhone – June 28, 2017
Gene Munster: Expect Apple smart glasses in mid-2020 – June 27, 2017
UBS: Apple may eventually launch ‘iGlass’ smart glasses – June 20, 2017Apple granted U.S. patent for hybrid VR head-mounted display – February 18, 2015
Apple is working on VR user interfaces and gaming; looking for Oculus and Leap experts – February 10, 2015
Apple granted patent for display-based speakers for iOS devices – January 13, 2015
Apple granted a patent for devices with a transparent display – November 18, 2014
Apple’s new iPhones, iPads could feature haptic displays – June 30, 2014
Apple patent application reveals personal display headset invention – May 8, 2014
Google Glass-wearing woman claims attack at San Francisco bar – February 26, 2014
One year wearing Google Glass: ‘Look at that asshole’ – December 31, 2013
Apple patent application reveals wildly intelligent multi-tiered haptics system – May 3, 2012
Apple continues to tweak Apple TV video headset accessory – April 10, 2014
Apple patent application reveals sapphire flexible transparent display devices created with Liquidmetal – December 19, 2013
Apple granted knockout patent for head-mounted personal display – December 10, 2013
iGlasses: Apple granted patent for head-mounted augmented reality displays – July 5, 2012
man, every other story is about Apple gettin’ its ass kicked.
Would u wear those glasses? If not then how is this a ‘kick in the ass’ for Apple ?
to look like a geeky bass fisherman, or like an senior citizen with macular degeneration? C’mon yo jim. (No ill intent to bass fishermen or sr citizens).
They are. Babe one exciting new surprise product in the last five years.
Exactly.
So many obvious places Apple should be a player. Where’s the game console? Fuck Netflix but Sony. And Netflix!!! See done. Problem solved.
Oh can’t ? Why? The do it yourself.
Duh Just read a wsj article saying most millennials could care less about $1000 smartphones and this most are good enough. Same article said in China the x clone is so cheap it’s disposable. And just as good.
Apples peaking out like a rock band with an old classic hit. Draws the fossils. Still has a career.
But won’t play to enterprise? And forgotten at education? Sad.
Eh. Those are tiny markets.
I mean there’s a surfer who may have to phone home while catching a wave. Cool co cent rate only on him.
And steve would have kicked Jimmy Iovine ass for bailing.
And where’s that embarrassment Dre. ?
Typos courtesy Apple keyboard
Oh looks like glassholes the sequel.
Oh no it’s got a touch pad on the side, quick a new social move, the Temple stroke.
Will Apple glassess be Bar proof ?
Heh! Apple should have a dark shilouette of the invisible hand of MDN in the lobby of the new HQ. I love seeing the anti-smart glasses psyops campaign begin.
I gave 4 Amazon echos this Christmas alone. These glasses don’t look bad at all. Apple will never catch up in this market. They are as far behind as Microsoft was with smartphones.
I can’t wait to get a pair of these.
Peter Capaldi would be proud.
“Apple will never catch up in this market. They are as far behind as Microsoft was with smartphones.”
An Inconvenient Truth.
“Apple will never catch up in this market.” — How many times has that been said and about how many different markets?
Alexa is no longer just an information bot, she’s an IOT platform.
Considering how IoT = Security FAIL FAIL FAIL…
Pray for Alexa.
Thanks Vuzix Corp for finding a dweeb to use your glasses. Now I understand your market better.
*Clunk*Clunk*Clunk*
The sound of progress in the fields of smartglasses, VR/AR and AI. I’m personally stunned at the craptacular nature of these fields at this period of time. Hype has clearly hit the brick wall of reality.
*Crash*Crash*Crash* 💥🚗
Up next on the hYpE conveyor belt:
HomeBots. 🤖🤦
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