At Amazon’s annual hardware showcase conference, David Limp, Senior Vice President of Devices and Services, announced that the smart glasses will be available soon. Echo Frames. It would seem that these are ordinary glasses. they do not include no screen or camera. However, it is possible to access and communicate with Alexa thanks to small built-in microphones and a small, hidden speaker.
Weighing just 31 grams, these Echo Frames glasses are first and foremost one of Amazon’s experimental products that are not yet on the market but are on the horizon. Dave Limp called them “Day One Editions”. For information, they are already marketed for price in the United States. 180 dollarsbut currently by invitation only.
Amazon may be one of the first companies to offer this technology to the public.
This isn’t Amazon’s first work in smart vision: The multinational company announced the Vuzix Blade AR smart glasses with integrated Alexa at CES 2018. sold for the price $999It is aimed at the business world where smart glasses are rapidly adopted.
After Huawei and the Gentle Monster Goggles launched earlier this year, Amazon has one of the first companies to market this technology to the public. That said, Alexa will need to address a number of privacy concerns that have arisen as its potential to integrate into people’s daily lives is even greater.
According to a report published by CCS Insight in August, these smart glasses will start to attract the attention of consumers in the next few years. Its sales are expected to exceed 150,000 in 2019 and reach 2.7 million devices in 2023.
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