Chris Parkinson Co-founder and CTO of RealWear on Voice Controlled Applications for Industrial Workers - Voicebot Podcast Ep 287

Chris Parkinson began working on the idea behind RealWear while
at Kopin back in 2007. In 2015, he founded WearNext to explore
routes to further technical development and commercialization of
the productivity tool for connected industrial workers. That
ultimately led to co-founding RealWear in 2016.


 


The company presents itself as providing the first hands-free and
fully ruggedized head-mounted tablet solution. But it's not quite
a tablet. It's a headset for voice interactive hands-free access
to data, information, and applications.


 


Earlier in his career, Parkinson was a senior engineer at Alien
Technology and a researcher at Battelle Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory. He earned a PhD in computational and
theoretical chemistry from the University of Manchester.