The stuff that in five years you will look back and say, 'I never imagined we were going to be able to do this and create these type of experiences.'' Dan Ledger, principal for Endeavour Partners, said, 'We're getting to a point now where Google Glass came out a few years ago and ran its course and Google is working on its new iteration of that and Microsoft has some incredible products. 'We are seeing some early adoption trends that we think will take off around HoloLens, biometric authentication, token, and wearable IoT sensors.'ДЄR glasses are particularly beneficial in the enterprise. I think you're going to see true augmented reality glasses like Microsoft HoloLens and cousins like Epson's glasses bridging gap between the two,' Ballard said. 'I think monocular smartglasses are going to really fly this year in enterprise. In 2015, industry analysts expected smartglasses to realize $1 billion in annual costs savings in the field services industry, and they estimate the market will grow to $6 billion in 2016, Ballard said. Watches and fitness trackers are the ones that span both categories.'Д«allard predicted that one megatrend will be the collision between the Internet of Things and wearable devices as many major companies are considering how wearables will benefit their manufacturing facilities. We've seen all the major vendors double down on enterprise. It's where rubber meets the road in enterprise adoption. There will be a definite shift in the marketplace, according to Liz Dickinson, CEO of Mio Global, whichД«rian Ballard, CEO of APX Labs, said 'The biggest thing is we've gone from hype to momentum to traction in 2016. 'In 2016, we're going to see continued consolidation in the market, with single-function devices taking a back seat to devices that feature a useful stack of applications,' Haggard said. 2015 was the year where companies started talking about having a wearables strategy which indicates that wearable tech is here to stay.' This past year, we've experienced the broader commercialization of many fitness trackers and smartwatches, with adoption rapidly climbing. In 2014, we saw the introduction of several new wearable technologies and form factors to the market, led by fitness trackers. John Haggard, CEO of Nymi, said, '2016 is gearing up to be another transitional year for wearables. Several industry experts shared their predictions on what we can expect to see in the next 12 months in each of these categories. Health-related wearables, particularly those for seniors and babies, and for monitoring sleep and health conditions, constituted a large segment of the new devices on display.

The future of wearables, which includes activity trackers, smartwatches, smartglasses and embedded sensors in clothing, is quickly evolving and changing to reflect technological advances and new products available in the marketplace.ДЄt CES 2016, there was a plethora of wearable devices dominating the scene, particularly fitness trackers, sensors, smartwatches, virtual reality and augmented reality headsets, also known as smartglasses.

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