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Form is a smart tool designed to help swimmers with their, well, form in the water. The first-generation Form Smart Swim goggles have been around for a while now, but the second-gen Smart Swim 2 packs some big improvements, as smart glasses begin to really come into their own. 

The smart glasses category includes specialist exercise tools, such as Form Smart Swim goggles for swimmers and the Engo 2 AR glasses for runners, both of which use augmented reality heads-up displays to serve up essential information and workout statistics during your session. However, thanks to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, the latest iteration of Amazon Echo Frames (Gen 3) and others, the smart glasses world is getting considerably bigger and better. 

Form, as early adopters, has ridden this wave and come back to the table with a highly advanced pair of goggles. Unlike many other pairs of smart glasses, while these collects information about your swim, there’s no need to pair it with a companion wearable like a smartwatch to get health metrics – the Smart Swim even takes your heart rate itself, measured at the temple with an in-built optical heart rate sensor.

“It’s an environment where you’re often guessing, and you have nothing to really rely on.” says Scott Dickens, ex-Olympian swimmer and Form’s director of business development. “By leveraging our magnetometer, we’ve been able to create a first of its kind in-goggle digital compass that provides real time directional headings. If I’m swimming towards that yellow buoy, for example, and I see that it’s at 270 degrees, as long as I’m swimming with my head down, and the arrow is pointing that way, I will be swimming as straight as an arrow.”