This year's CES and MWC both reported an increase in
the number of exhibitors for Augmented
Reality Smartglasses Market,
growing from only a handful to more than 100 vendors showcasing prototypes,
samples, and final products, according to report “Development Trends
of Augmented Reality Smartglasses”.
Although AR and VR can oftentimes be blurred, they
have significant differences that should not be overlooked. VR headsets are
mainly used for gaming purposes, while Augmented
Reality smartglasses have redirected their use to enterprise market.
As AR companies continue to enhance basic and
advanced features for the enterprise market and make improvements to draw
individual consumers, smartglasses is anticipated to become more widely
accepted," report explains. "The increase of business uses and growth
of shipment volume will in turn stimulate the development of key components and
bring down production cost. As such, it is predicted that by 2018, shipment
volume of smartglasses will reach 1 million units.
Complete Report Available at http://www.sandlerresearch.org/development-trends-of-augmented-reality-smartglasses.html .
The launch of Google Glass at Google I/O 2012
has brought a fresh new outlook to the head-mounted display and wearables
industry. Despite Google’s decision to terminate production and sales later in
2015, the development of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and
head-mounted displays has continued uninterrupted.
This report provides an overview of the latest
development of AR and VR smartglasses and examines the potential of
smartglasses in the future.
List of Topics:
Latest development of augmented reality
smartglasses and includes accumulated shipment volume forecast by market sector
for the period 2015-2020
Development timeline of key vendors in
different development phases, mainly Google and Microsoft
Analysis of key issues that is likely to
affect the potential of augmented reality smartglasses
Companies covered
Atheer, Caputer, DAQRI, Epson, Facebook,
Fujitsu, Glass Up, Google, Intel, Konica, Minolta, Kopin, Laster, LG, Lumus,
Magic Leap, Meta Company, Microsoft, Mirama, ODG, Optinvent, Recon Instruments,
Seebright, Skully, Sony, Telepathy, Theia, Toshiba, Vuzix, Zebra
Table of Contents in the Report Development Trends of Augmented Reality Smartglasses
Development Trends of Augmented Reality Smartglasses
1.Overview of the AR Market
1.1 Product Positioning
1.2 Market Development
2. Development of the AR Industry
2.1 Key Vendors in the AR Industry
2.2 Development of Key Players
2.2.1 Google
2.2.2 Microsoft
3. Key Issues
3.1 End User Market Segmentation
3.2 Development of Product and Technology
MIC Perspective
Enterprise AR Market Shipments to Top One
Million Units by 2018
Taiwan to Find AR Opportunity in Key
Components and End Products
Appendix
Glossary of Terms
List of Companies
List of Tables
Table 1: Analysis of Key AR Vendors and Their
Solutions
List of Figures
Figure 1: Illustration of Head-mounted Display
Figure 2: Accumulated Shipment Volume of
Worldwide AR Smartglasses by Market Sector, 2015 - 2020
Figure 3: Development of Key AR Smartglasses
Vendors
Figure 4: Development of Google AR/VR Products
Figure 5: Development of Microsoft HoloLens
Figure 6: Customer Preferences on Product
Features
