VIDEO: BLACKBERRY AND VUZIX IS WORKING ON A NEW PROJECT

BlackBerry is now making a move into the wearable category through a partnership with an American technology firm Vuzix, meant to create a smart glass that uses augmented reality as its cornerstone. Vuzix is a Rochester, New York based manufacturer of smart glasses and AR products. Under the new partnership, BlackBerry will work to ensure the security of data captured and stored in the smart glass using its user environment management software while Vuzix will be responsible for the hardware side of things by providing its Vuzix M300 product. The goal of the partnership is to help facilitate communication among employees in a company, for example, while making sure that access to data is not interrupted by a load of current tasks performed by the user.

The smart glasses are powered by an Intel Atom processor and run on Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system. The wearable device comes with a touch pad, sensory speech recognition system and a GPS (Its field of view can span up to 20 degrees). Its brightness is measured at 2000 nits, with 24 bits of colour. Under the hood, the smart glass includes 2GB of RAM and 64GB of internal flash memory. Vuzix also incorporated a 13-megapixel camera into the wearable device capable of recording videos with a resolution of 1080p. Other key features of the Vuzix M300 are image stabilization, microphones with dual noise cancelling capabilities, and a 100mAh battery. On the connectivity side, the M300 features a micro USB 2.0 HS, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n/ac, MIMO 2×2, and Bluetooth 4.1/2.1+EDR.

In the video below you get to see a hands on review of the Vuzix M100, and with the M300 to come, these features mentioned in the video can only get better.