Vancouver wearable tech pioneer FORM has launched the second-generation of its augmented reality swim goggles.
Available to purchase now worldwide, the smaller, more comfortable FORM Smart Swim 2 features integrated heart rate monitoring and an innovative digital compass for open water navigation.
Building on the award-winning success of the Smart Swim 1, FORM Smart Swim 2 leverages patented Waveguide optics technology and an array of onboard sensors to deliver real-time metrics, guided workouts and unparalleled real-time swim coaching.
The excitement surrounding the FORM Smart Swim 2 stems from its new features, integrated heart rate monitoring and SwimStraight™.
A groundbreaking temple-based integrated heart rate sensor provides a reliable and accurate way to monitor heart rate in the water, making real-time heart rate-based zone training accessible to all swimmers.
SwimStraight™ incorporates a first-of-its-kind digital compass and enhances open-water swim confidence by enabling swimmers to follow in-goggle directional heading. This reduces course deviations and improves overall swim efficiency.
Over the past four years, the FORM team has refined its industrial design approach, applying extensive learnings and hydrodynamic research to further optimize performance.
Smart Swim 2 is smaller than the Form’s OG goggles. The Smart Swim 2 goggles’ tech pack—containing the accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and barometer—is now 15% smaller, by volume, than its predecessor, delivering a sleeker, more hydrodynamic design.
FORM has also rolled out updates to its HeadCoach™ digital coaching technology. First unveiled in October 2023, HeadCoach gives swimmers real-time in-goggle access to technique awareness, focused skill development (HeadCoach Skills), and in-app education and analysis.
“Smart Swim 2’s built-in heart rate sensor eliminates the inconvenience of purchasing, attaching, and pairing a separate device and displays accurate continuous real-time heart rate for optimal training and racing”, said Dan Eisenhardt, CEO at FORM.
For open water swimmers, “SwimStraight is truly transformative, particularly for triathletes, offering an intelligent guide to keep your swim path straight and true, saving energy, time and improving focus,” Eisenhardt commented.
FORM Smart Swim 2 goggles, and all included features, have been granted race approval by World Triathlon, USA Triathlon, the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO), and supertri.
FORM Smart Swim 2 is now available for purchase for $249 from www.formswim.com and at specific multi-sport retailers.
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