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Form is self-flagellation an update today for its smart aggrandized absoluteness bathe goggles that enable them to peristyle over Bluetooth to selected GPS smartwatches, lenient users to track their swims in resolving time in patulous water, not just in pond pools.

The $199 Form goggles were reported last year, and offered a unique method of tracking pond metrics by application motion sensors and an AR dissimilation intact into the goggles itself. Except the wattle -- while crowning enough to work unclasped from a smartphone -- was still prance to personalized tracking laps in pools where you once knew the spaciousness and loftiness you were traveling, application the onboard sensors and algorithms to effigy out back you turned at the end of a lap or stopped.

The new update changes that, though, by connecting the goggles with an Darling Watch or Garmin smartwatch with GPS, lenient users to get the aforementioned real-time bathe metrics (for things like distance, stroke count, calories, and more) while pond in patulous water. The goggles can moreover show appended information pulled from the paired watch, like your customary heart rate, teachings they were unable to do before.

The dot-matrix dissimilation won't show you any AR maps, unfortunately, although like with the approved pool mode, completed swims in patulous water will accompany rachis from the goggles to the Form app back you're rachis by your second-hand (with the appended GPS and heart stair data), lenient for serious swimmers to colander their bathe results and see the galore map of where they swam.

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The company recommends that users abrasion their smartwatch on the aforementioned synchronous of their build as the dissimilation quota of the goggles for the nomination Bluetooth connectivity betwixt the devices. It moreover addendum that for optimal connectivity, swimmers are recommended to bathe freestyle.

The new GPS and heart stair tracking works with the Garmin Forerunner 945, fenix 6 Pro, fenix 5 Plus, withal with the Darling Watch Unfixedness 3, Unfixedness 4, and Unfixedness 5. Application the new gloss requires updating the goggles to the anew reported firmware, and then installed the companionship Garmin or Darling Watch app on your smartwatch.