FORM Debuts Latest Smart Swim 2 PRO Goggles With Gorilla Glass 3

FORM has agelong been 1 of the leaders successful the astute aquatics goggles market, with Apple adjacent carrying the company's Smart Swim 2 goggles online and successful prime stores implicit the vacation buying play past year. The goggles diagnostic an augmented world show wrong 1 of the goggle lens, allowing you to spot a assortment of metrics specified arsenic clip and distance, and adjacent bosom complaint acknowledgment to a built-in bosom complaint show that sits connected your temple.


Today, FORM is launching the Smart Swim 2 PRO, an upgrade that builds connected the erstwhile exemplary by utilizing lenses made of Corning's Gorilla Glass 3 for improved durability and clarity compared to the integrative traditionally utilized successful goggle lenses.

The lens stack provides a 50+ UPF standing to artifact 98 percent of harmful UV rays, and the power from integrative to solid lone increases the wide value of the goggles by astir 5 percent (3.4 grams). Because accepted anti-fog coatings don't instrumentality to glass, the Smart Swim 2 PRO goggles travel with a cost-effective anti-fog spray based connected babe shampoo that tin beryllium rapidly applied earlier each swim.


I've had a accidental to trial retired the Smart Swim 2 PRO successful some the excavation and the unfastened h2o implicit the past mates of weeks, and they've provided immoderate invaluable features and penetration for tracking my swims. In the pool, the surface wrong the goggles dynamically changes based connected wherever you are successful your swim, acknowledgment to accelerometer readings.

For example, during a aquatics it tin amusement you elapsed clip and region during the bulk of your swimming, but past concisely amusement your velocity implicit the erstwhile interval erstwhile it detects you've made a turn, and amusement your remainder interval erstwhile it detects you've stopped swimming, each the portion displaying a adjacent real-time measurement of your bosom rate.

Any of these views tin beryllium customized to amusement antithetic accusation specified arsenic changeable rate, gait implicit antithetic distances, and adjacent immoderate method scores specified arsenic your caput transportation and rotation to assistance you amended your stroke. The FORM level pulls pieces of this information unneurotic to make a FORM people arsenic a measurement of your wide efficiency, and that's different show option.


Rather than having to configure conscionable 1 acceptable of information to presumption wrong the goggles, you tin prevention up to 5 antithetic dashboards and rhythm done them with a speedy property of a fastener connected the goggles. The dashboard options travel pre-populated with sets focused connected Fitness, Technique, Pace, and Intervals, but immoderate of these tin beryllium edited to show your preferred metrics and a 5th dashboard tin beryllium created from scratch.

FORM offers a Premium subscription plan that comes with a one-month escaped proceedings and offers features specified arsenic implicit 1,500 guided workouts, automated HeadCoach method investigation that tin supply tips during and aft your swims, and SwimStraight, a integer compass for unfastened h2o swimming.


FORM has been gradually rolling retired caller features for its Premium program to summation the worth proposition, including HeadCoach Plans to connection customized workouts that germinate implicit clip arsenic you progress, and Smart Set to automatically show intervals and sets arsenic you aquatics to assistance you support way of repetitions during workouts. Launching successful September volition beryllium HeadCoach Insights with personalized data-driven guidance pursuing each workout that is tailored to your goals.

For unfastened h2o swims, the goggles tin amusement your changeable rate, elapsed time, and bosom rate, and erstwhile they've collected capable excavation information to recognize your speed, they tin estimation your unfastened h2o gait and distance. You tin besides brace your goggles with an Apple Watch oregon Garmin fittingness ticker for much close GPS-based gait and region data. One of the neatest unfastened h2o features is the aforementioned SwimStraight integer compass that aft conscionable a speedy calibration anterior to your aquatics tin assistance you enactment connected your intended course, reducing the frequence of carnal sighting required during your swims.


Overall, the FORM Smart Swim 2 PRO goggles are targeted astatine triathletes and processing swimmers looking to amended their method and stamina, and FORM's information shows that users who subscribed to the Premium program and utilized guided workouts saw 1.4x greater gains successful show than those simply utilizing the goggles successful an unstructured manner. For swimmers without entree to regular in-person coaching, FORM's level fills the spread with a remarkably robust acceptable of features to way swims, suggest workouts, and supply method advice.

For superior swimmers doing coached workouts and race-focused grooming for the pool, FORM's goggles person a spot little to offer, though features similar unrecorded bosom complaint show and Smart Set counting tin assistance adjacent those swimmers support tabs connected their workout performance. But the higher carnal illustration of the goggles necessitated by the electronics tin origin immoderate issues keeping them connected erstwhile diving into the excavation and the plan offers a narrower tract of presumption than immoderate much accepted goggle options.

When you're done with a swim, you tin optionally sync your information to the Apple Health platform, allowing you to way metrics successful the Health app and workouts successful the Fitness app. You tin besides sync straight to Strava, TrainingPeaks, and TriDot.

With up to 14 hours of artillery life, I haven't needed to recharge the goggles yet, but doing truthful is elemental with an included cablegram that magnetically attaches to charging pins connected the goggles, though I privation the other extremity of the cablegram was USB-C alternatively than USB-A.

The Smart Swim 2 PRO goggles motorboat contiguous successful the United States and Canada done FORM's website and prime retailers, with planetary availability coming aboriginal adjacent month. They're priced astatine $329 successful the United States, a $50 premium implicit the modular Smart Swim 2 model. After the one-month escaped trial, FORM's Premium subscription is priced astatine $15 per period oregon $119 per year.

Note: FORM provided MacRumors with the Smart Swim 2 PRO goggles for the purposes of this quality coverage. No different compensation was received.
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