A personalized experience First, I stopped by the Focals by North trailer at the event to order a pair and have my face scanned for fitting. After about 8 weeks they were ready—the only problem ...

It was a rainy morning in Seattle when I stepped inside a trailer not far from Amazon’s Spheres to try on North’s Focals, smart glasses that show notifications, the weather, and connect with ...

Focals creator North just announced a big price cut: the glasses now cost $599, down from the $999 the company was originally asking. Your smartest pair of glasses just got smarter: Prescription ...

North's Focals are a worthy successor to Google Glass, and seem to be getting even better with a second-generation right around the corner. North's Focals are a worthy successor to Google Glass ...

Well, one company is trying to change that: North. The Canadian company (slowly) released its Focals, a pair of smart glasses, over the 11 months. It began selling them in its flagship stores in ...

North’s Focals feel like magic, and they’ve rekindled the excitement I felt when seeing Google Glass for the first time. Focals look like normal glasses, mostly. That’s an incredible feat.

Heavy and slightly uncomfortable to wear for long stretches. The Focals messaging experience on iOS is unwieldy; navigation app doesn’t offer enough context to be useful. One night recently I ...

Smart glasses maker North announced today that it will be ending production of its first-generation Focals glasses, which it brought to market for consumers last year. The company says it will ...

Back in February, Canadian startup North rolled out its Focals smart glasses in earnest with a notable price cut to start at $599. Over the past several months, updates added third-party ...

North Focals have so far been the closest thing we’ve seen to the long-rumored Apple Glasses, and now its Focals 2.0 model promises to get even closer to the goal of an AR headset which looks ...

While Silicon Valley shoots for total mixed reality immersion, the 500-person strong North (previously Thalmic Labs) has spent five years in Waterloo, Canada building Focals, a pair of stylish ...

Smart glasses maker North announced today that it will be ending production of its first-generation Focals glasses, which it brought to market for consumers last year. The company says it will ...