Tired of flying in the dark, intelligent skiing with AR technology

For skiers, ice and snow, far from the city noise, flying from the magnificent mountains, flying down the snow, listening to the wind, speed and passion, feeling that call a good. For years, however, skiers have been flying in the dark. For an outdoor sport that can travel up to hundreds of kilometres per hour, athletes or enthusiasts have not been able to accurately record important technical details. Recently AR Devices LLC. Developed a universal fitting ski mirror Accessories gogglepal (Chinese name is ski fine spirit), using augmented reality technology, can display the data of skiing in real time, let ski enthusiasts no longer glide in the dark.

Gogglepal is a common lens, can fit any ski glasses, the use of augmented reality, using the Heads-Up display technology, built-in GPS chip, can be real-time display of sliding speed, altitude, acceleration, rotation angle, time, battery power and other information, Even the time and the length of your prance in the air.

With Bluetooth, Gogglepal can be connected to a mobile phone, and the app will record the ski data, analyze the details, give the skiers guidance and improve the overall performance of the ski.

Several of Gogglepal's founders are ski enthusiasts, and their products take into account the needs of ski enthusiasts:

(1) Gogglepal is a versatile lens that can be fitted with any ski glasses and adsorbed on the original ski mirror so that users do not need to buy extra expensive ski goggles.

(2) Ski goggles are small in size, how to add a general lens in such a small space, do not occupy space? Gogglepal's idea is to separate the chip, the battery from the lens, the chip and the battery in the goggles, thus saving the interior space of the goggles.

(3) adaptation of the app inside the Snow field map, pinpoint their location with friends, to protect the skiers will not lose with their teammates.

As a sport that reaches hundreds of kilometres per hour, safety issues must be considered first. Gogglepal told 36 Krypton that they were mainly doing two jobs:

One is the use of dual-reflective lens group technology, with digital information after two reflection of light to reach the prototype area, the image projected in the right eye and the lower corner of the position, the user will see the equivalent of 15cm in front of the position of information, occlusion of sight of the area reached the smallest.

One is through the ultra strong magnet technology, users can be easily installed in a variety of different ski gogglepal, at the same time the 360-degree steering shaft technology also provides a flexible space for the universal stent technology, users can according to the ski mirror and face, eye spacing, free adjustment of the installation position and turn to achieve the best visual effects.

In fact, for ski enthusiasts to launch smart devices, AR Devices is not the first. Recon Instrument, a Canadian company that has been invested by Intel, has also launched a ski mirror Snow2, but it costs up to $400-800 and is sold with goggles, with the main users still at the high-end. Gogglepal expects the first version to be priced at around 250 dollars, and if it does, it has a competitive advantage.

Members of the Gogglepal team have been working on this project since July 2012 and are now completing prototypes of the product, and the team wants to Kickstarter a sum of money for production at the end of August. It is expected to be delivered to users next February.

In the first generation of product development and basic completion of the foundation, the second generation of Gogglepal research and development is also in intensive progress. Gogglepal founder Shaopeng told 36 Krypton, they expect the second generation of Gogglepal will have three new features: 1 will adopt low-cost fully transparent imaging technology, so that the reality of enhanced technology to get a better experience, real vision without dead end design; 2 The device will adopt a large screen, support color screen effect; 3 Support camera function, realize Gogglepal and GoPro fit.

Now I have not seen the specific product demo, but I still very optimistic about the idea of this product. Select a specific movement vertical field into, service specific groups, has proved to be a more feasible way of thinking, Zepp, smash are relatively successful cases.

However, in terms of safety, I think there is a small problem with the Gogglepal, the use of super magnets adsorbed on the goggles, when the strong impact, there will still be the risk of falling off, but also very likely to scratch the user's face. In addition, I feel that Gogglepal is mainly for the underworld, Randall such senior skiers, not very suitable for beginners.