TL;DR
- Smartwatch face platform Facer made a few announcements at CES today.
- Facer will soon be available on some RTOS-based wearables.
- A new Face Chime feature allows watch face makers to add custom hourly chimes to their faces.
Smartwatch face platform Facer announced a handful of notable updates at CES today. The popular custom watch face creator and marketplace is expanding to more smartwatch platforms, and Facer faces are getting new capabilities, including a handy hourly chime option.
Facer is expanding to RTOS watches soon. Facer will be pre-installed on Reebok’s upcoming Kinetic smartwatch (seen in images here), which will run on VitalOS with MicroEJ VEE Wear. The company’s also partnering with free and open-source graphics library LVGL, an integration that’ll see Facer watch faces available on RTOS-based watches from a number of brands, including Xiaomi.