The smartwatch to viewers for augmented reality is booming for wearable devices – The Messenger

smart watches that have a thousand apps and can also phone, bracelets that monitor the health and physical activity, visors for augmented reality that transport us in a video game. But also the loved ones and old wireless headsets. Are wearable devices, an area that includes more and more gadgets and that started quietly in 2016 will see a double-digit growth. According to research firm Gartner, in fact, in the coming months it is expected to grow by 18% in the sector. Of the nearly 29 billion dollars in revenues that will be generated, 11 billion and a half will come from its own smartwatch like the Apple Watch.

“They’ll be wearable devices with the greatest potential until the end of 2019, when they will reach 17 billion and a half dollars revenue, “says Angela McIntyre Gartner but warns:” Despite the sales smartwatch are those strongest of all wearable their adoption still remains far below sales of smartphones. ” To give a boost to the spread of smart watches, it might just be the greater autonomy from mobile. For example devices that have on-board Android Wear, Google’s operating system, thanks to a recent update can do voice calls but also to initiate functions without touching the screen. According to Gartner, beyond the smartwatch, in terms of units sold category of wearable winning on all the time is still that of stainless wireless headsets (this year it will be sold over 128 million).

as an emerging market is to the viewers for augmented reality and virtual, born devices as part of expensive military programs that are becoming familiar to consumers and businesses. No accident that the big technology are all took to the field, from Facebook with its Oculus VR, the Samsung up to Microsoft Hololens Gear VR but are not yet on the market. In 2016 they will be sold 1.4 million of these devices, in 2017 the figure will exceed six million. “They will improve the user experience, creating interactive attractions, movies, sporting events, and even more personal content. It should also have applications in the labor sector, ‘says Brian Blau, Gartner. It is no coincidence that the oldest of the Google Glass project is dead, in favor of another all screened to the business world. To confirm the growth of the wearable device industry, a few days ago also came the Cisco report on connections ‘mobile’ global: the company says the market for wearable in five years will grow by six times. In 2020 there will be 600 million wearable devices in use, a significant increase from 97 million compared to 2015.