Elbit Systems Launches Wearable-Display Company, Everysight

20 November 2015—Elbit Systems (Haifa, Israel), the largest defense contractor in Israel, announced this week the upcoming launch of a new company, Everysight, which will focus on providing wearable augmented-reality and vision display systems for the consumer wearables market. Raptor smartglasses, the new company’s first product, is designed to provide real-time data to cyclists and other athletes.
 
Elbit Systems, which also bills itself as a commercial high-tech company, has for more than 30 years specialized in helmet-mounted display systems for military and commercial aviation. Its display system technology is integrated into pilots’ helmets to show real-time critical flight data in the pilot’s field of vision.
 
“Now we’re bringing this experience to the consumer market with smart glasses that will revolutionize how athletes see and experience information,” said Everysight CEO Asaf Ashkenazi. “Raptor is the first step in our greater plan to create a full line of smart glasses.”
 
Everysight will use similar technology in the Raptor smartglasses. Raptor, designed over several years with professional athletes, looks and feels like traditional athletic eyewear, but integrates lightweight hidden technology to provide performance data to bicycling and mountain-biking athletes.
 
The Everysight Beam technology projects real-time information such as velocity, altitude, elapsed time and distance, grade and heart rate on a see-through display in the wearer’s line of sight. The lens serves as the augmented display, and the displayed data itself is see-through, which eliminates peripheral distractions and reduces eyestrain compared to conventional technology.
 
A mapping app enables 2-D, 3-D and birdseye views of trails and streets. The smartglasses also incorporate a camera and touchpad for capturing pictures and video.
 
The new firm, scheduled to launch in 2016, has financial backing from Elbit as well as external investors.