- AI applications in development on
Vuzix Shield and Ultralite
ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 31, 2023
/PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), ("Vuzix"
or, the "Company"), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and
Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, announced today
that it has partnered with TeamOpenSmartGlasses ("TOSG") to
develop ChatGPT AI applications on Vuzix smart glasses. Under
development are a suite of conversation enhancement tools built for
all-day wearable smart glasses. These apps improve meetings and
conversations with live info that enhances user understanding of
conversations for executives, technologists, academics, etc..
TOSG is a team of developers, startups, and universities
developing open source smart glasses technologies to upgrade human
thinking. TOSG members Cayden Pierce
and Alex Israelov are leading the
development of AI smart glasses tools for the Vuzix Shield smart
glasses, and soon for the Vuzix Ultralite smart glasses OEM
platform.
TOSG will be demonstrating these ChatGPT AI applications running
on the Vuzix Shield at the Augmented World Expo USA 2023 (AWE), which is being held this week
at the Santa Clara Convention
Center in Santa Clara,
California.
TOSG has developed a pipeline to connect smart glasses directly
to OpenAI's ChatGPT API. Development is enabled by the
SmartGlassesManager, a smart glasses software framework that
allows developers to rapidly build apps that run on any pair of
smart glasses. Apps in development include:
Contextual Search Engine - Searches for
information relevant to the conversation and presents it on smart
glasses. Hear a word you don't know? See it defined. Mention of a
place you haven't heard of? See a map overlaid on your vision.
Mention of a politician you don't know? See their face and bio.
ChatGPT Meeting Tools - Summarize real-world
conversations, ask questions about your discussion, have chats with
ChatGPT on your smart glasses.
Fact Checker - Listens to your
conversations and fact-checks statements live, no need to switch
context and ignore others to use your phone.
"We've seen great progress making virtual conversations more
like real life, but the content of conversations IRL and virtual
remains unenhanced. We're bringing the power of real-time search
and AI into conversations to enhance our ability to understand,
communicate, and think," said Cayden
Pierce, Team Lead at TeamOpenSmartGlasses. "Smart glasses
are the next major consumer computing platform, and Vuzix is a
world leader in smart glasses hardware, so I believe this
partnership of Vuzix hardware and TOSG open source AI tools has the
potential to radically enhance how people converse and think."
"AR and AI are the perfect match of two game-changing
technologies and this partnership represents one of the first real
AI implementation efforts with smart glasses," said Paul Travers, President and CEO of Vuzix.
"Applications such as those being developed by TOSG have the
potential to revolutionize the communication and understanding of
both diverse and complex information."
About Vuzix Corporation
Vuzix is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of Smart
Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies and products for
the enterprise, medical, defense and consumer markets. The
Company's products include head-mounted smart personal display and
wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high-quality
viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable
displays and augmented reality, as well OEM waveguide optical
components and display engines. Vuzix holds more than 300 patents
and patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the fields of
optics, head-mounted displays, and augmented reality Video Eyewear
field. Moviynt, an SAP Certified ERP SaaS logistics solution
provider, is a Vuzix wholly owned subsidiary. The Company has won
Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation for the
years 2005 to 2023 and several wireless technology innovation
awards among others. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company
(NASDAQ: VUZI) with offices in: Rochester, NY; Oxford, UK; Munich,
Germany; and Kyoto and
Tokyo, Japan. For more
information, visit the Vuzix website, Twitter and
Facebook pages.
Forward-Looking Statements Disclaimer
Certain statements contained in this news release are
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities
laws. Forward looking statements contained in this release relate
to Vuzix smart glasses, our business relationship and future
opportunities with TOSG and the users of their applications, and
among other things the Company's leadership in the Smart Glasses
and AR display industry. They are generally identified by
words such as "believes," "may," "expects," "anticipates," "should"
and similar expressions. Readers should not place undue reliance on
such forward-looking statements, which are based upon the Company's
beliefs and assumptions as of the date of this release. The
Company's actual results could differ materially due to risk
factors and other items described in more detail in the "Risk
Factors" section of the Company's Annual Reports and MD&A filed
with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and
applicable Canadian securities regulators (copies of which may be
obtained at www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). Subsequent events and
developments may cause these forward-looking statements to change.
The Company specifically disclaims any obligation or intention to
update or revise these forward-looking statements as a result of
changed events or circumstances that occur after the date of this
release, except as required by applicable law.
Vuzix Media and Investor Relations Contact:
Ed McGregor, Director of Investor
Relations,
Vuzix Corporation
ed_mcgregor@vuzix.com
Tel: (585) 359-5985
Vuzix Corporation, 25 Hendrix Road, West Henrietta, NY 14586 USA,
Investor Information – IR@vuzix.com www.vuzix.com
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