

The glasses themselves are made from carbon fibre and titanium, which should make them a lightweight pair of glasses to wear. Read now: Our Amazon Echo Frames hands-on first look What's more, in 2021 Amazon has updated the range to include blue light filtering and polarized options. You can get eyewear professionals to get a set of prescription lenses (or sunglasses) so the Frames can replace your existing pair of specs. You can talk to Alexa – for controlling your smart home, getting notifications, making calls and listening to music – without the people around you hearing the responses. Unlike Google Glass they’re not AR so you don't see anything, but play Alexa feedback via four directional speakers built into each stem. The Echo Frames are Amazon’s Alexa-on-your-face play, and put the voice assistant into a regular pair of specs. There's also additional Round and Meteor frames available too. There will be 20 style variations, and they will support prescription lenses. On the listening front, they include two open ear speakers to handle listening to audio playing from your phone or to handle calls.Īll of that tech is being wrapped up in some familiar Ray-Ban frames, which include the iconic Wayfarer, and will apparently only add 5g over a non-smart pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarer glasses. There's plenty of innovation coming – here's the newest smart glasses tech arriving in 2021.

That could be recreating the kind of screens and features you'd find on your smartphone like navigation for maps or flashing up notifications. When we talk about AR or augmented reality smartglasses, we are focusing on eyewear that has the technology on board to merge what you see in the real world with virtual information, usually overlaid on one of the glasses lenses.

Smartglasses and AR are considered the next big breakthrough for wearables that will filter into our daily lives.
