Boreas Haptic Blog

Smart Glasses UX: Why Every Input Modality Falls Short

Smart glasses input design is a comparison of trade-offs. Capacitive touchpads, mechanical buttons, voice commands, eye tracking, and neural wristbands each address part of the interaction problem while creating new failure modes — misfires from sweat, single-axis input limits, social friction,...

Datacenter Cooling Principles, Pocket-Sized Form Factor: Solving Thermal Throttling in Edge AI Devices

Thermal throttling in compact devices is a performance limit triggered when a mobile processor's sustained heat output exceeds what passive cooling can dissipate, forcing a reduction in clock speed. Edge AI is accelerating this problem fast — not because compact devices are approaching...

The Battle for Smart Glasses' Killer App: Why Input Method Will Determine the Winner

The smart glasses market is heating up, with tech giants investing billions in what they believe will be the next major computing platform. The breakthrough success of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, Meta's new partnership with Oakley, Google's XR glasses development, Samsung's XR partnerships, and...

7 Reasons Why Solid-State Buttons Can Transform How We Navigate AR Glasses

The augmented reality (AR) glasses market is emerging as the next frontier in personal computing, presenting a massive opportunity. Think about it: we've witnessed an incredible evolution from room-sized computers to laptops, then to smartphones that fit in our pockets, and now we're standing at...

The Return of the Button: How Companies Are Rediscovering Tactile Controls

Tesla, the company that helps popularize the all-touch interface, has added physical buttons back to their interfaces. This marks a shift in the way companies are thinking about the user experience with the need for tactile interfaces.