New Opportunities with Wearable Technology

As the Pebble watch and other wearable devices become ubiquitous new opportunities for innovative user interaction and functionality are being created. This presentation, by ChaiONE Senior Developer Matthew Morey, will look at the technical capabilities of the current leading wearable devices and how those capabilities can be leveraged to create unique user experiences, especially when paired with smart phones.

Why you should care about the wearable technology market? What are the technical limits of the current available wearable devices? How to integrate the Pebble with iOS to achieve unique user functionality not possible by each device alone?

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1. Wearable Technology matthewmorey.com | @xzolian
2. matthewmorey.com | @xzolian
3. BuoyExplorer.com
4. ☐ What is wearable technology ☐ Why you should care ☐ What is possible right now Agenda
52. ☑ What is wearable technology ☐ Why you should care ☐ What is possible right now Agenda
53. Create
56. Life Improvement
58. $
61. $10,266,846 - Pebble Watch $8,596,475 - OUYA (game console) $5,702,153 - Veronica Mars (movie) $4,188,927 - Torment: Tides of Numenera (game) $3,986,929 - Project Eternity (game)
62. Units Sold Pebble iPhone >190,000 >400 Million
63. 2011 2015 2020 Global Connected Devices 10 Billion 15 Billion 25 Billion
64. $4.6 Billion in 2013
65. $10 Billion per year by 2016
66. ☑ What is wearable technology ☑ Why you should care ☐ What is possible right now Agenda
67. Demo
68. ☑ What is wearable technology ☑ Why you should care ☑ What is possible right now Agenda
69. “I agree to wear you around and share a lot of personal data with you.” - Customers
70. Questions? matthewmorey.com | @xzolian
71. Credits Pictures Pebble, Pebble Forums, Pebble SubReddit, iFixIt, Wired, Verge, Lifehacker, BBC, MyPebbleFaces, Kickstarter, indiegogo, Wikipedia, Anouk Wipprecht, Adika Titut Triyugo, Illustrated Encouragement, Unsplash