ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix®
Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses,
Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies and
products for the consumer and enterprise markets, is pleased to
announce that Germany based ESSERT
GmbH, and Picavi, as well as US based Apprentice Field Suite and
Third Eye Health are the latest partners to join the Vuzix
Industrial Partner (VIP) program. As Vuzix VIPs, they have received
early access to Vuzix M300 Smart Glasses and have been adapting
their enterprise applications to leverage the state-of-the-art M300
platform. The Vuzix M300 represents the next generation of smart
glasses, designed to address customer feedback from more than two
years of productive use of the M100. The advanced ergonomic design
and feature set of the new Vuzix M300 enables enterprise users to
operate in an increasing number of situations as exemplified by the
new VIP abstracts below;
Apprentice Field Suite:
Focused on Pharmaceutical manufacturing/R&D and related
industries dealing with Biologics, Chemicals and Consumer Products.
Apprentice currently delivers compliant solutions to 5 of the top
10 Pharma companies, major Biotech's, industry leading CMO's, and
complex manufacturing equipment providers. The unique
features of the new Vuzix M300 smart glasses, such as BT4.1 beacon
connectivity, Android 6 security and speech to text functionality,
will allow Apprentice's clients to scale current pilots into full
deployments in this extremely complex and regulated industry.
These pharma related clients leverage significant ROI by utilizing
Apprentice's complete solution that includes 3 core components:
TANDEM enhanced collaborative telepresence increases uptime and
efficiency while reducing troubleshooting travel expenses, MANUALS
process and workflow aid improves accuracy and compliance, and
GAUGE safety and hands-free data collection tools provide tangible
productivity enhancements.
ESSERT specializes in
'Industrial Automation' for industry 4.0 and calls many of the
world's largest manufacturing companies their clients. ESSERT
software delivers industry specific telepresence applications
coupled with live machine data for unprecedented effectiveness in
manufacturing applications. Supporting applications lend themselves
to training and documentation management providing ESSERT's clients
with complete solutions all via the mobile platform that the new
Vuzix M300 offers.
Picavi: Delivers an
optimized and market ready vision picking solution for warehouse
applications in Europe and
North America, providing
hands-free scanning and visual process guidance resulting in 18%
operation gains over traditional picking methods. Picavi lessens
the hurdles warehouses face to deploy at scale via the Picavi Pure
and Picavi Smart integration software platforms, which allow for
immediate integration into existing warehouse WMS systems with no
middleware. Their clients not only reap the lower costs and
accuracy gains of vision picking, but also gain real-time
operations transparency with easily reconfigurable workflows, now
leveraging the ergonomic features that the Vuzix M300 brings to
this difficult environment.
Third Eye Health: extends
the reach of healthcare providers and experts through a secure,
HIPPA compliant mobile platform for sharing video, audio, and data
in real time to reduce unnecessary hospital visits and expedite
time sensitive diagnoses remotely. Third Eye's secure system turns
smart glasses into telemedicine devices, allowing nurses wearing
Vuzix smart glasses to communicate with specialized remote medical
staff through live secure video and the compliant exchange of
medical data. Third Eye's early VIP access prepares them to
deploy Vuzix M300's immediately when shipping commences to its
customers, like Advanced Healthcare Solutions (a forty-nursing home
chain in Texas), and many other
individual physicians to further improve medical care and reduce
costs in this highly regulated sector.
"We are thrilled to have these partners join our VIP program,"
said Paul Travers, President and
Chief Executive Officer of Vuzix. "All have been strong AR partners
for Vuzix M100 smart glasses. As augmented reality enterprise
applications continue to expand in global use, Vuzix Smart Glasses
are leading the charge with a very visible and growing list of use
cases and VIP partners."
About Vuzix Corporation
Vuzix is a leading supplier of Smart-Glasses, Augmented Reality
(AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies and products for the
consumer and enterprise markets. The Company's products include
personal display and wearable computing devices that offer users a
portable high quality viewing experience, provide solutions for
mobility, wearable displays and virtual and augmented reality.
Vuzix holds 43 patents and 23 additional patents pending and
numerous IP licenses in the Video Eyewear field. The Company has
won Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation for
the years 2005 to 2016 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 and
Tokyo, Japan.
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, among other things, the Company's leadership in the Smart
Glasses, VR and AR industry and our leading position for
application level support. 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
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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.
Investor and Media Relations Contact:
Andrew Haag
Managing Partner
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Vuzix Corporation
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Henrietta, NY 14586 USA
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