Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ:VUZI) announced Wednesday a partnership with German market tech start-up rooom AG that offers an innovative all-in-one solution for 3D and Augmented Reality (AR) to support interest from customers in healthcare, education, field service, construction, manufacturing, and training.
Vuzix said its combined solution with rooom AG addresses growth needs as businesses position for expansion in the wake of reopenings.
The future of mobile workers across manufacturing, field service, and healthcare has begun to shift from in-person support towards a hybrid model of in-person and remote support, the company noted.
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Vuziz said that by partnering with rooom AG, which offers a cloud-based platform that allows customers to digitize assets and products into CAD data, it will be able to help its enterprise customers across multiple market verticals expand the usage of Vuzix Smart Glasses and begin to build and offer new AR digitalized assets to their employees and staff to assist with training and knowledge transfer.
"We are excited to work with Vuzix, an industry leader in smart glasses, to expand our presence across enterprise and provide new innovative experiences and 3D augmented reality digitalized assets for training and knowledge transfer," said Hans Elstner, CEO and co-founder of rooom AG in a statement.
Vuzix CEO Paul Travers added: "We welcome rooom AG as a Vuzix Smart Glasses platform partner. Our combined solution will support the creation of advanced 3D augmented reality content for both new and existing enterprise customers at both companies, while concurrently driving increased demand for our Smart Glasses.”
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