At CES, the consumer electronics industry’s biggest annual trade show, scores of products tend to get hyped up and unveiled, only to disappear when it comes to time to either ship them or show off a new version at next year’s show. That does not appear to be the case for Vuzix, a Rochester, New York-based augmented reality and smart glasses company that says it’s now taking orders for its Blade AR glasses.
The device was unveiled in its most recent form — Vuzix has been working on this technology for years, in various capacities — at CES 2018. We covered that device, a pre-production version of what will now ship to consumers, as a solid, though clearly first-generation version, of what Google Glass once promised. The glasses...