Amazon drivers could be wearing AR glasses with a built-in display next year

The caller glasses would spell beyond Amazon’s Echo Frames.

Amazon, similar Meta, Google, Samsung, and Snap, is moving connected a caller brace of augmented-reality (AR) glasses, according to a study from The Information. The AR glasses, codenamed Jayhawk, could reportedly travel with a full-color show successful 1 eye, on with built-in microphones, speakers, and a camera.

The study comes conscionable earlier Meta is expected to reveal its “Hypernova” astute glasses astatine its Connect event. Meta’s glasses are rumored to beryllium a measurement supra its Ray-Ban astute glasses, offering a tiny show for mini apps and alerts connected the close lens, according to Bloomberg. Meta is besides moving connected a pair of AR glasses known arsenic Orion.

Amazon launched its third-gen Echo Frame astute glasses successful 2023, but their features autumn level erstwhile compared to Meta’s Ray-Bans. Though Amazon whitethorn motorboat its archetypal AR glasses successful precocious 2026 oregon aboriginal 2027, The Information reports that Amazon could merchandise a brace made for transportation drivers adjacent earlier.

Amazon initially plans connected making 100,000 units of the glasses for transportation drivers, called “Amelia” internally, The Information reports. They volition reportedly person a bulkier plan erstwhile compared to the user version, on with a show designed to supply instructions to drivers astir wherever to present packages. Reuters reported connected the glasses past year, saying they would connection drivers “turn-by-turn navigation connected a tiny embedded screen.”