Focals by North – Getting Fitted for Smart Glasses

I’ve long been an enthusiast of augmented reality headsets and, as early as the tech still is, I believe that AR will truly take off when we have head-mounted devices that find the right balance of usefulness and style. The balance between functionality and wearability is a long-standing struggle for AR manufacturers, but now a new player is on the market: Focals by North.

North, formerly known as Thalmic Labs, is the company behind the hackathon favorite Myo armband, and founder Stephen Lake is known in the Canadian tech startup scene to be a wunderkind hardware founder. ...