Tractica Forecasts Augmented Reality-enabled Smart Glasses Installed Base Will Reach 12.2M by 2020
Most people accept that we will need to have smart glasses for immersive Augmented Reality in enterprise. The growth of this segment remains a difficult calculation to perform. In the press release issued by Tractica, a market research firm that focuses on human interaction with technology, the high level forecasts suggest that 114,000 smart glasses will be purchased by customers in 2015 and, in 2020, the number will exceed to 5 M. Over the five year period a total of 12.2 M units will be sold, according to the research summary. It’s one thing to estimate the shipment of devices in a new product category in 2015 and the likely shipments in the following five years, but it is also challenging to forecast the number of customers buying and expected retirement and replacement of those early units over the same period. How many early customers will be satisfied with their purchases for more than a few months?