Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ:VUZI), a leading supplier of smart glasses and augmented reality (AR) technology, and AMA, a pioneer of assisted reality and workflow management software solutions, have announced the reinforcement of their partnership to grow and strengthen both organizations' ability to deliver remote collaboration for the deskless workforce.
Rochester, New York-based Vuzix and AMA have been working together for over five years and are now widening the scope of their partnership agreement to accelerate the digital transformation of their joint industrial and healthcare customer base.
By proposing the lightweight and ergonomically versatile Vuzix M400 smart glasses on the entire XpertEye remote assistance product range, customers will be able to boost productivity and successfully complete remote support tasks safely and efficiently, said the company.
Customers will now benefit from hands-free collaboration with voice control on XpertEye Essential as well as from seamless remote assistance with the Vuzix M400 wearable display connected to a dedicated smartphone on XpertEye Advanced, added the firm.
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As a strategic partner, AMA has been the first to successfully test and leverage Vivoka's embedded multilingual automatic speech recognition, now standard on Vuzix full line of smart glasses. With 18 languages available, the XpertEye assisted reality solution embraces the unparalleled and secured voice AI capabilities of this embedded speech technology.
"Our growing relationship with AMA increasingly leverages the strong combination of a leading hardware platform and a leading software solution," said Vuzix founder CEO Paul Travers in a statement. "The proven productivity improvements of our combined offering will remain a strong demand driver as industry adoption continues to accelerate this year and beyond."
Guillaume Campion, who is the VP Product and Partnerships at AMA, said the partnership is “taking a new step forward.”
“We are convinced that our combined, forward looking vision of remote assistance is key to accompany the rapid digital transformation of our customers," added Campion.
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