That means focusing on devices that work in the home, like smart toilets and voice assistants, or unobtrusive objects, like smart clothing and wearables, that are easy to assemble, understand, and ultimately use. One in 5 patients said their medically prescribed wearable device was hard to use, in a January 2022 survey by Software Advice.

With smartwatch competition coming around the corner, Apple is looking to bolster its lead in health and fitness tracking. WatchOS 9 offers improved sleep tracking, a Medications app to help users manage and track meds, and Heart Rate Zones to track the intensity of workouts.

Even commonplace devices like Fitbits can compromise military intelligence. Tesla may be bullish on cameras for AV systems, but it’s hardly the only automaker to deploy them. Any vehicle with such devices linked to AI could prompt privacy concerns. This means law enforcement, auto companies, and hackers could potentially access an array of revealing AV data.

Numerous wearables, such as haptic gloves, eye-tracking glasses, and gaming vests now provide inputs that will include body movements in virtual experiences, or easier inputs for AR experiences, such as touchless scrolling for smart glasses. Shifting Device Use. More AR and VR experiences are shifting from smartphones to dedicated AR and VR headsets.

An app’s value can also be enhanced by syncing it up with wearables and condition-specific medical devices, such as smartwatches and glucose meters, respectively. If mHealth apps can automatically sync with apps on wearables, the user experience will likely improve compared with a process that requires users to manually sync the data.

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Smartwatch payment user growth will outpace overall device penetration through 2025. Increased contactless payment appetite and new eligible devices, like Timex’s smartwatch line, will drive growth, and the deployment of Web3 could multiply opportunities. Almost 84% of US households will have connected TVs in 2022, per our forecast, opening the door to shoppable TV.

These respondents have good reason to be skeptical, as the devices entering the consumer market often lack the regulatory oversight and systems that medical wearables have. Popular and Emerging RPM Devices. There are a variety of wearables available to consumers besides those from Apple, Samsung, Fitbit, and Amazon. Internet-Connected Versions of Medical Devices.

This year, substantial numbers of Gen Zers will use connected TVs (46.9 million), tablets (35.9 million), smart wearables (15.1 million), and smart speakers (17.7 million). More millennials than Gen Zers will use smartphones, tablets, connected TVs, wearables, or smart speakers through 2025. But in two to three years, Gen Z will eclipse Gen X in its usage of all those technologies.

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According to Deloitte’s “Connectivity & Mobile Trends 2021” survey, some 39% of people in the US own a wearable device such as a smartwatch or health and fitness tracker, but only about 40% of those users say they are very or somewhat concerned about the privacy of the data that is collected by the companies behind the wearable device and the supporting apps. A little education changes the equation.

Meanwhile, clinicians are mainstream consumer wearables, clinicians are hesitant to mainstream wearable data to inform their decision-making. Trendspotting: We’ve entered the stage of digital health transformation where if you’re a digital health company, RPM is more of a need-to-have.

Alexa can be accessed via a slew of other Amazon products, from devices operating Fire TVs and Fire tablets to a range of Echo-branded wearables.