Recon Instruments
Recon Instruments was a Canadian technology company that produced smartglasses and wearable displays marketed by the company as "heads-up displays" for sports. (However, none of Recon's products contained a transparent display element delivering actual see-through capability and can thus be considered heads-up displays in the true meaning of the term.) Recon's products delivered live activity metrics, GPS maps, and notifications directly to the user's eye. Recon's first heads-up display offering was released commercially in October 2010, roughly a year and a half before Google introduced Google Glass.
former Recon Labs, Vancouver, BC | |
| Industry | Smartglasses, Wearable computers |
|---|---|
| Founded | January 17, 2008 |
| Founders | Dan Eisenhardt, Hamid Abdollahi, Fraser Hall, Darcy Hughes |
| Defunct | summer 2017 |
| Fate | acquired by Intel Corporation, closed in 2017 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | North America, Europe, Japan, Australia |
| Parent | Intel Corporation |
| Website | ReconInstruments.com |
Recon received investments from companies including Motorola Solutions and Intel. It also partnered with enterprise software vendors in order to make its latest smart eyewear device, the Jet, suitable for industrial applications.
On June 17, 2015, Recon was acquired by Intel. Recon then described itself as "an Intel company."
In June 2017, Intel announced that all remaining Recon Instruments products were going to be discontinued by the end of the year. According to a Bloomberg report in October 2017, Intel had in fact completely closed its Recon Instruments division already in early summer 2017.