CHAPTER 12RealWear, Inc
By Andrew E. Chrostowski (Chairman and CEO), Rocky Scales (Executive Vice President, Global Sales), and Aaron Cohen (Director of Communications)
About RealWear
RealWear, the world's leading maker of industrial-strength, assisted-reality, hands-free devices for frontline workers, has been providing in-situ information and in-the-field training with software and hardware since 2016. We catapulted quickly into prominence by creating a wearable computer that operates flawlessly in extremely noisy industrial environments, freeing a worker to focus on the task at hand. For example, the RealWear HMT-1 assisted-reality (AR) device is designed to maintain full situational awareness while allowing communication and collaboration with the team. (See Figure 12.1)
For us, it was never just about technology. From the very beginning, our mission has been to empower, engage, and elevate people. We believe that connected workers are inherently more engaged with their business and customers; that having access to relevant and critical information, hands-free, empowers workers to do their jobs more safely and productively; and that these two things combined elevate the frontline worker's personal performance for the enterprise.
In the early years of our operation, the industry was still trying to define itself. The Gartner Hype Cycle1 had pushed consumer expectations for augmented reality into the “trough of disillusionment” as experiments and implementations failed to ...
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