Amazon is constructing, and already testing, HUD glasses for its supply drivers, revealing the design and interface.
The existence of the good glasses was reported by The Data final month, and at the moment Amazon formally introduced the undertaking.
Clips shared by Amazon depict the glasses as having a hard and fast green-only (monochrome) show, and the corporate says they assist prescription lenses and transitional lenses that tint in response to daylight.
Amazon describes the glasses as utilizing “superior laptop imaginative and prescient processing and AI” to let drivers scan packages, get turn-by-turn strolling instructions to the supply level, and seize proof of supply without having to take a tool out of their pocket, liberating up their fingers.
“When drivers safely park at a supply location, the glasses routinely activate and the DA is given their supply info—proper of their area of view—beginning with finding the appropriate packages inside their automobiles to the corresponding houses”, Amazon explains.
A “small controller” worn on the supply vest, in the meantime, incorporates what seems to be a button dial, in addition to a swappable battery for “all-day use”.
Amazon says it has examined “early variations” of the glasses with “a whole lot” of supply drivers, although it is not but revealing a timeline for a wider deployment.
“We anticipate future variations of the glasses will present real-time defect detection, the place the glasses will help notify drivers in the event that they’ve mistakenly dropped a bundle at a buyer doorstep that doesn’t correspond with the home or condominium quantity on the bundle, detect hazards like low mild and modify the lenses, notify that there’s a pet within the yard, and extra.”
The Data’s report prompt that Amazon intends to start out mass manufacturing of the supply driver glasses by mid-2026, with an preliminary manufacturing run of round 100,000 items.
