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OPTICAL WEARABLES:
BRINGING

TECHNOLOGY

TO LIFE

Cover Story
By Evra Taylor

hen Google started Wearable technology has already made
selling Google Glass its mark in several therapeutic areas
to qualified “Glass in modern medicine, most notably
Explorers” in the U.S. cardiology and diabetes, where sensors
Win 2013, the world’s are used to capture and monitor key
first smart glasses were described as data, such as heart rate, blood pressure
“electronic informative AR glasses and insulin levels. And its increasing
with clear lenses.” Unfortunately, the use in the optical industry is impacting
venture was fraught with wearability lives through devices like smart glasses

and technology problems and was and breakthrough technologies, such
short-lived, ending in 2015 when as augmented reality (AR).
Google announced that it would stop
producing the Google Glass prototype. For some people, AR is a portal to a
Since then, leading technology firms fantasy world or a means to an escape
both within and outside the optical - a diversion from their day-to-day
world have ventured into the AR and reality. In the optical world, the
AI space with the hope of capturing technology has become an important
consumers’ imaginations with next-gen method of helping to ensure a more
eyewear that some pundits predict will precise, customized eyeglass fit.
eventually replace smart phones.

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