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I was just skiing last week and realized the goggles were pretty comfortable... and so huge they could easily store the electronics, batteries, etc... to make p

I was just skiing last week and realized the goggles were pretty comfortable... and so huge they could easily store the electronics, batteries, etc... to make pretty good AR devices. I wonder if in a couple of years everybody will be wearing iGoggles.

matthewowen 8y ago
This existed: a company called Recon made a HUD built into ski goggles. I have one and it's kinda fun: GPS and altimeter, and connects to your phone for notifications. It didn't sell well though and I think is now discontinued. The company was acquired by IBM.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago
  > it's kinda fun: GPS and altimeter With 5G on the horizon, it might be time to re-launch such a product. Having the ski route traced out in front of you is not only helpful safety-wise, but could add a social dimension if key stats could be shared live--and visually, calling to mind a video game--between friends (or broader).
  - hyeonwho4 8y ago
    As an avid skiier, a route traced out in front of you would absolutely NOT help with safety: more than driving, one needs to be able to see the surface conditions and be aware of obstacles at the edges of one's field of vision. At least until such a time when an AI is able to warn you of loose snow, bumps, ice, and a fallen skiier outside of your field of vision.
srcmap 8y ago
I like to see the computer, battery, wifi/cellular radio, etc all be strapped to the my belt rather than next to the eye/brain. It is like installing a tiny microwave oven next to your brain and running it continuously. Whatever on glass/goggle should just be headup display/maybe small camera with small wire connection.
- Chilinot 8y ago
  > ... It is like installing a tiny microwave oven next to your brain and running it continuously. ... No, it is not like that at all. Wifi/cellular radio do not generate even close to the power required to affect you in any way. [1] [1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/19285/if-microwave-ovens-and-wifi-both-operate-on-the-same-frequency-why-doesnt-wifi https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/19285/if-microwa...
  - colordrops 8y ago
    Yes it absolutely does. [1] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952570/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952570/
    - StrictDabbler 8y ago
      Have you actually read that paper? Line by line? It's garbage. The "researchers" bought a cow brain and cut a rectangular slab of it. So far so good. They put the slab in a plexiglas box and waited for it to reach thermal equilibrium with the room and air. Then then held a cell phone directly against the brain tissue for 15 minutes. Yes. That's right. They held the phone DIRECTLY AGAINST THE BRAIN. They have the gall to describe this as being "exactly as a person was communicating with a cell phone." Yes, I always hold my phone directly against my brain tissue. The effect measured was that the tissue got a fraction of a degree warmer. Of course cell-phones are very warm devices and will warm up any slab of flesh they're resting on. Did the "researchers" isolate the radio energy by testing again with the phone on airplane mode? Nope. Did they in any way distinguish between radio energy and thermal energy from a battery-operated supercomputer? Nah bro. No discussion of that whatsoever. Meanwhile, the paper is written like an undergraduate report by somebody who doesn't speak english very well and who doesn't have an editor. How could this be? Well, the paper was published in the International Journal of Preventive Medicine, a publication of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran. This journal has an impact factor of 0.98, putting in the bottom third of all journals. This isn't science in any way, shape or form. It should never be cited by anybody except as an example of a shitty, shitty paper.
  - 8y ago

matthewowen 8y ago

This existed: a company called Recon made a HUD built into ski goggles. I have one and it's kinda fun: GPS and altimeter, and connects to your phone for notifications. It didn't sell well though and I think is now discontinued. The company was acquired by IBM.

JumpCrisscross 8y ago
> it's kinda fun: GPS and altimeter With 5G on the horizon, it might be time to re-launch such a product. Having the ski route traced out in front of you is not only helpful safety-wise, but could add a social dimension if key stats could be shared live--and visually, calling to mind a video game--between friends (or broader).
- hyeonwho4 8y ago
  As an avid skiier, a route traced out in front of you would absolutely NOT help with safety: more than driving, one needs to be able to see the surface conditions and be aware of obstacles at the edges of one's field of vision. At least until such a time when an AI is able to warn you of loose snow, bumps, ice, and a fallen skiier outside of your field of vision.

srcmap 8y ago

I like to see the computer, battery, wifi/cellular radio, etc all be strapped to the my belt rather than next to the eye/brain. It is like installing a tiny microwave oven next to your brain and running it continuously. Whatever on glass/goggle should just be headup display/maybe small camera with small wire connection.

Chilinot 8y ago
> ... It is like installing a tiny microwave oven next to your brain and running it continuously. ... No, it is not like that at all. Wifi/cellular radio do not generate even close to the power required to affect you in any way. [1] [1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/19285/if-microwave-ovens-and-wifi-both-operate-on-the-same-frequency-why-doesnt-wifi https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/19285/if-microwa...
- colordrops 8y ago
  Yes it absolutely does. [1] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952570/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952570/
  - StrictDabbler 8y ago
    Have you actually read that paper? Line by line? It's garbage. The "researchers" bought a cow brain and cut a rectangular slab of it. So far so good. They put the slab in a plexiglas box and waited for it to reach thermal equilibrium with the room and air. Then then held a cell phone directly against the brain tissue for 15 minutes. Yes. That's right. They held the phone DIRECTLY AGAINST THE BRAIN. They have the gall to describe this as being "exactly as a person was communicating with a cell phone." Yes, I always hold my phone directly against my brain tissue. The effect measured was that the tissue got a fraction of a degree warmer. Of course cell-phones are very warm devices and will warm up any slab of flesh they're resting on. Did the "researchers" isolate the radio energy by testing again with the phone on airplane mode? Nope. Did they in any way distinguish between radio energy and thermal energy from a battery-operated supercomputer? Nah bro. No discussion of that whatsoever. Meanwhile, the paper is written like an undergraduate report by somebody who doesn't speak english very well and who doesn't have an editor. How could this be? Well, the paper was published in the International Journal of Preventive Medicine, a publication of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran. This journal has an impact factor of 0.98, putting in the bottom third of all journals. This isn't science in any way, shape or form. It should never be cited by anybody except as an example of a shitty, shitty paper.
- 8y ago