Your Amazon Driver Is Wearing Ai Smart Glasses Now - Here's What They See

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Amazon is processing smart transportation glasses. 
• They tin thief place hazards and make it easier to find packages.
• Customers' deliveries should besides beryllium improved. 

AI-powered smart glasses are having a moment, pinch Meta adding respective caller pairs to its postulation past period astatine Meta Connect and Samsung teasing its upcoming brace this week. However, nan AI smart glasses connected nan marketplace person catered towards nan wide consumer, while nan ones Amazon conscionable launched person a different purpose: optimizing deliveries. 

On Wednesday, during its "Delivering nan Future" arena successful San Francisco, Amazon unveiled its smart transportation glasses, designed to thief transportation associates present packages much safely and efficiently, which successful move improves customer transportation experiences. 

The glasses tin scan packages, show turn-by-turn stepping directions, and seizure an image of nan transportation hands-free, helping drivers enactment focused and debar reaching for their phones. Powering it each is AI and instrumentality learning. 

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The glasses usage AI-powered sensing, machine vision, and a camera to create a "heads-up display" that tin showcase navigation details, hazards, and transportation tasks, arsenic stated successful nan release. As seen successful nan screenshot above, nan in-lens show appears to usability likewise to nan in-lens displays recovered connected nan Even Reality smart glasses. 

For example, nan glasses automatically populate transportation information, specified arsenic reside and number of packages, wrong nan driver's section of position arsenic soon arsenic they parkland safely extracurricular nan delivery. The smart glasses besides alteration them to find nan package successful nan truck, displaying different alerts erstwhile nan package is identified. 

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Lastly, to safely present nan driver to nan destination, it navigates them to nan transportation reside pinch turn-by-turn stepping navigation powered by Amazon's geospatial technology. If location are hazards connected nan way, nan smart glasses will guideline nan transportation subordinate accordingly to safely get them to their destination. 

The glasses tin accommodate prescriptions arsenic good arsenic light-adjusting lenses. Additionally, nan glasses characteristic a mini controller worn successful nan transportation vest for operational controls, a swappable artillery for all-day use, and a dedicated emergency button. Amazon said successful nan blog station that nan glasses were designed pinch input from nan drivers themselves, pinch hundreds testing early versions and providing feedback that influenced nan creation and comfortableness of nan glasses. 

In nan future, nan institution anticipates that nan glasses will beryllium capable to observe real-time mistakes, alerting nan driver if they mistakenly driblet nan package astatine nan incorrect location aliases apartment, nonstop notifications erstwhile a pet is successful nan yard, and execute different functions. The institution did not supply an nonstop timeline for erstwhile to expect your driver to get astatine your doorway wearing nan smart glasses, aliases erstwhile nan rollout will start. 

Disclosure: The costs of Sabrina Ortiz's recreation to San Francisco, California, for Delivering nan Future arena was covered by Amazon, a communal manufacture believe for long-distance trips. The judgments and opinions of ZDNET's writers and editors are ever independent of nan companies we cover.