Like seemingly every major tech hardware company, Amazon has smart glasses in its crosshairs. Unlike Meta, Google, Samsung, and (potentially) Apple, however, consumers aren’t the first priority—it’s (duh) delivery drivers.
After announcing its plans to create a pair of display-equipped smart glasses for delivery drivers last year, Amazon now says it will begin rolling out 5,000 pairs to drivers before the end of the year, with a goal of having 20,000 pairs on faces by the end of next year.
Amazon’s purpose for the smart glasses is about what you’d expect: the company says it can help with less distracted navigation, aid delivery and factory workers in finding packages in warehouses, expedite tasks like scanning barcodes, or even alert workers of pets if a customer told Amazon that they have one. Basically, it does a lot of the things that Amazon workers’ current tech does, but in a form factor that lives on their face. “Hands-free” would be the operative difference here.
And as mildly useful as some of those instances might be, the idea of having to wear a pair is apparently not a popular one for every Amazon employee.
As Fast Company notes, Amazon workers in a Reddit forum for delivery drivers have already been sounding off about the idea, and not all the reactions are, shall we…
