The same is true for phone calls, and if anything, they benefit from the unique “inside your head” audio experience that the open-ear audio on the Echo Frames can provide. Nothing rubs uncomfortably and the Echo Frames stayed on my face without any adjustments. A lot of Amazon’s design decisions are in service of making the Echo Frames fit a majority of faces without issue, and it works. All that being said, Amazon’s smart glasses are comfortable to wear. With temples that are explicitly thicker and boxier than the rest of the glasses, it’s pretty clear there are speakers, microphones, and a built-in charging port. The Echo Frames are an acquired taste, and they don’t do the best job of hiding the fact they have tech stowaways (that honor goes to the Ray-Ban Stories). You can get the Echo Frames with blue-light filtering lenses or polarized sunglasses lenses for the same $269 price, or get frames that are ready for prescription lenses through a third party for $249 (note the cost of a new prescription could make these the more expensive option). And the rims and lenses themselves are narrow and rounded, and basically look like reading glasses you might try on in a CVS checkout line. Amazon has options that span different finishes like black, tortoise, two-tone blue, and a two-tone gray. These smart glasses do not by any means look bad, but they're a little bit dowdy for my taste. If there’s any obvious problem with the Echo Frames, it’s how they look. The Echo Frames look like a fairly standard pair of glasses until you look at the temples. Inverse may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. Smart glasses, and really any kind of augmented reality experience, are going to need to figure out the details first before they start doing any of the more computing-heavy mixed reality stuff that's approaching “the metaverse.” There are no cameras or displays in the Echo Frames, but that's not necessarily a bad thing because Amazon sticks the landing for the few things it can do. In practice, the Echo Frames are most useful as open-ear headphones, but that shouldn’t be discounted.
The Echo Frames are simple: they let me hear incoming notifications, call up Alexa for simple (if limited tasks), and disappear into my music/podcast/audiobook. Whether smart glasses like the Echo Frames have longevity or not, it feels like Amazon's hit on something legitimate here. With proper smart glasses that can display or project information in front of or into your eyes still in their early days as consumer products, the interim seems to be ambient, audio-focused experiences such as Amazon's Echo Frames. After conquering desks, pockets, and our wrists, big tech is ambitiously racing to put computers - in the form of smart glasses - on our faces.
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