Amazon's Alexa Will Help Power a Pair of Smart Glasses

Amazon'southward Alexa vocalization assistant is coming to a pair of augmented reality smart glasses that'll be shown at CES next calendar week.

The visitor backside the glasses, Vuzix, said on Friday it was integrating Alexa into its upcoming product.

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Vuzix'south CEO elaborated in an interview with Bloomberg that the glasses will launch in this year's second quarter, and will toll about $1,000. Wearers of the product will exist able to activate Alexa and make voice commands like requesting a map or asking for a basketball game's score. The product volition respond by showing the result over the glasses' interior display.

Vuzix hopes to cut the cost downward to $500 by 2022. For now, the visitor is keeping other details under wraps, but it did tease where its smart glasses products are going in a video posted on Fri.

As the twelvemonth goes on, expect more Alexa-powered wearables. On the same day, Amazon announced a new development kit to assist device makers integrate its vox assistant into their mobile products.

The Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit is designed for Bluetooth-enabled headphones, smart watches, fitness devices and others. Products built with the kit tin access the voice assistant past connecting with the Amazon Alexa app running over a smartphone.

The kit will be available later this yr. Withal, Amazon said several headphone makers including Bose, Beyerdynamic and Bowers & Wilkins are already developing products with it.

Other Alexa-powered gadgets are likewise expected debut at CES side by side week. Amongst them is a bathroom mirror from Kohler.