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Vuzix Announces Partnership With WakingApp

Most weeks have some degree of news from Vuzix. As we’ve mentioned previously on our coverage, the smart glasses company is perhaps the most prolific user of press releases in he industry. However this particular week in October has been something of a Vuzix-fest of news, as this will make the third announcement from the team in a week – and they’re all about very different things.
Vuzix - LogoToday’s news is one of partnerships, however. With the company, founded back in 1997, revealing that they have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with the team from WakingApp. They will be supporting Vuzix’s augmented reality (AR) smart glasses through their ENTiTi AR Creator content creation platform. Currently at version 3.0, ENTiTi AR Creator “allows for rapid content creation, simple integration with existing apps, on-the-fly content updates, support multiple AR solutions including SLAM AR, QR tracking or Image Target AR using JavaScript for its advanced scripting capabilities”.

Vuzix in turn will be distributing up to 100,000 limited time licencees for ENTiTi to its various customers over the next two years. With model environments being released as demos for both its M300 and Blade Smart Glasses. The move is designed, the company says, to promote app creation, as Paul Travers, Vuzix President and Chief Executive Officer, explained.

“Our partnership with WakingApp will introduce a new community of developers to the Vuzix Blade and Vuzix M300 Smart Glasses opening the door for the creation of new applications and experiences for enterprise and consumers. WakingApp’s ENTiTi AR Creator 3.0 levels the playing field for developers by enabling individuals with zero coding skills to create AR content for Vuzix smart glasses. Vuzix is really excited to provide ENTiTi AR Creatorform.”

Vuzix Blade“We are extremely excited about this partnership, and of becoming an integral part of one the fastest growing segments in the AR space.” Adds Matan Libis, the CEO of WakingApp Ltd. “By integrating our ENTiTi 3.0 creator with Vuzix line of smart glasses we believe that there is great potential to accelerate the growth in both of our companies.”

VRFocus will have more AR related news, and probably more for Vuzix too, very soon.

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Vuzix Partners with Austria’s ANYLINE to Deliver Mobile OCR Reading

Augmented reality (AR) smart glasses manufacturer Vuzix, which makes the M100 and M300 models, has recently announced a new partnership with Austria’s ANYLINE to provide owners of the headsets with the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application.

OCR allows users to read text, whether that’s reading across a room, a license plate on a car, or a gas meter in a manufacturing plant for example, which is then inputted instead of using voice recognition, typing, or button scrolling. ANYLINE demoed the technology using the Vuzix Smart Glasses at the AWE Europe conference in Berlin, Germany last week.

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ANYLINE is solely focused on fast and accurate text recognition, which can be difficult to accomplish, requiring  higher processor power and camera resolution. ANYLINE will now leverage the new Vuzix M300 to provide this experience at the speed and accuracy demanded in enterprise environments.  The software development kit (SDK) can be adapted to client specific needs, or can be used with several pre-optimized applications.  Current use cases span scanning passports for the United Nations, to reading utility meters for large energy providers.

“We are excited to add the ANYLINE OCR application to the Vuzix developer toolkit. While currently available on the M100 Smart Glasses, the new Vuzix M300 was specifically designed with 3-times the processing power and a significantly higher resolution camera to empower applications like this to deliver the quality and speed required by enterprise,” said Paul Travers, President and CEO of Vuzix.

In September Vuzix began shipping its Design Validation Test (DVT) units of the M300, but only to VIP developers and enterprise partners.

VRFocus will continue its coverage of Vuzix, reporting back with any further updates.