Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ:VUZI) has announced a collaboration with Fielmann Group, one of the largest manufacturers of glasses and eyewear products in the world, and TeamViewer, an AR productivity solution platform provider and Vuzix value-added reseller.
Hamburg, Germany-based Fielmann currently supports over 11,000 enterprise customers and provides individual workstation and protection glasses, as well as hearing protection, to over 100,000 employees across Europe. Fielmann also has an existing relationship with TeamViewer. It is currently assisting companies with the selection of suitable glasses, fitting of smart glasses, and training their staff.
Vuzix said that the collaboration with Fielmann will enable it to offer customers a variety of purpose-built frames that provide the enterprise worker with options that are comfortable and attractive to support all day usage to complement its enterprise leading Vuzix M400 and Vuzix M4000 smart glasses.
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"Vuzix is an industry leader that fields a competitive family of smart glasses, and we are proud to have them support smart glasses frames from Fielmann," Clemens Schneider, director sales optics at Fielmann, said in a statement. "Fielmann is focused on creating productivity, efficiency and cost savings for our enterprise clients and digitizing the eyewear industry with smart glasses solutions for final customers."
"The combination of Fielmann smart glasses frames with Vuzix smart glasses powered by TeamViewer Frontline and other software solution offerings provides fashion friendly, comfortable, and vision correction script-capable wearable options for frontline workers to allow them to work safer, more efficiently and longer," added Vuzix founder CEO Paul Travers.
The company said that Vuzix and TeamViewer will jointly demonstrate purpose-built fashion friendly smart glasses frames from Fielmann with TeamViewer Frontline running on Vuzix smart glasses at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 from January 5-to-7 at the Vuzix booth (No. 17075) in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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