Smart glasses have so much potential, but for whatever reason (maybe because so many of them look lame), they’ve never really taken off. Well, one company is trying to change that: North. The Canadian ...

North, an augmented reality (AR) wearables company backed by Amazon and Intel, has announced that it’s pulling its current Focals smart glasses off the market in preparation for a new incarnation ...

North（以前称为Thalmic Labs）推出旗下首款智能眼镜Focals 。乍一看，Focals是一副普通的眼镜，但是就像谷歌Glass一样， 数字界面设计为漂浮在右眼前方，Focals在右眼镜框架内集成了处理SoC和激光投影仪将信息发送到您视线中的小圆形贴片上。 North说，结果是一个 ...

The concept of an IRL heads-up display has been a part of science fiction since basically the beginning. Big players have tried their hand at it with less than stellar results — most notably Google ...

As I wrote a couple days ago, Google has lately been in the augmented reality background as it quietly pushes ahead with Glass Enterprise Edition in, well, the enterprise. But some other companies, in ...

It was a rainy morning in Seattle when I stepped inside a trailer not far from Amazon’s Spheres to try on North’s Focals, smart glasses that show notifications, the weather, and connect with Alexa.

Google today confirmed in a blog post that it’s acquired North, the Canada-based smartglasses maker behind Focals. The acquisition price wasn’t disclosed, however early reports suggested it was around ...

Less than a month after shipping its first pair of Focals smartglasses, Waterloo-based North is adjusting the price of the wearable. Starting today, a basic pair of black Focals will set Canadian ...

Last year, North launched its first pair Focals, minimalist smart glasses that looked a lot like a traditional pair of eyeglasses. Since that time, the company has been selling Focals in showrooms ...

While Glass lives on as an enterprise product, it never came close to reaching Google’s wildly ambitious vision of replacing the smartphone. Others have since entered the smart glasses space, with ...

Waterloo, Ontario-based North announced that it would “wind down” its Focals smart glasses on July 31st. Google confirmed it acquired North near the end of June. After the acquisition, North announced ...

Smart glasses maker North announced today that it will be ending production of its first-generation Focals glasses, which it brought to market for consumers last year. The company says it will instead ...