Market Reality: Google Takes on Leap Motion, Snap Spectacles Invade NYC, & Vuzix Starts Selling Mainstream Smartglasses

All of the the tech industry giants, including Apple, Facebook, and Google, are working on new smartglasses and/or AR headsets, but this week, Google took a major step forward with gesture recognition technology that could make its way into AR wearables, posing a threat to Leap Motion and its hand-tracking controllers. And while AR-enabled Snap Spectacles failed to materialize by the end of 2018 as reported, the camera glasses may yet deliver a mainstream AR experience in 2019. With that in mind, we took them for a spin in New York City to gauge the public's reaction in the wake of the past... more



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