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Hot on the heels of Snapchat/Snap Inc, Intel is teaming up with Luxottica to release smartglasses for athletes:
The new glasses, dubbed "Radar Pace", will be sold on the Oakley.com website and in some stores of the Californian brand that Luxottica acquired in 2007. The glasses can create a personalized training programme for athletes by interpreting data in real time.
Also at CNET.
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Intel and Luxottica Launch "Radar Pace" Smartglasses
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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @11:06PM
So do the glasses crunch the data themselves? Or do they have to connect to "the cloud"? I assume they crunch data on the device since people won't want to have their phones on them and who would buy these if they required a monthly connection fee. However, the article is quite short on details...
Also, I don't often see athletes in sunglasses except for bicyclists, am I just not attentive enough?
(Score: 1) by FunkyLich on Monday October 03 2016, @11:21PM
What do you mean that people won't want to have their phones on them? More and more I see people running around with a a belt of a sort where their phone is and there's connected either earphones or some sort of armband collecting whatever data about the body they think it is useful to know. And recently there's a new and improved version of the armband, you stick the phone directly there, therefore no need for a belt.
Don't you dare to mock the cloud. Again. Ever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @11:28PM
Stories set in the Cloud in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with people losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their phone. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another. A phone, in the shape of a ring, button, bracelet or pen or whatever, was your link with everybody and everything else in the Cloud. With a phone, you were never more than a question or a shout away from almost anything you wanted to know, or almost any help you could possibly need.
There were (true) stories of people falling off cliffs and the phone relaying their scream in time for a Hub unit to switch to that phone's camera, realise what was happening and displace a drone to catch the faller in mid-air; there were other stories about phones recording the severing of their owner's head from their body in an accident, and summoning a medical drone in time to save the brain, leaving the de-bodied person with no more a problem than finding ways to pass the months it took to grow a new body.
A phone was safety.
(Score: 1) by FunkyLich on Monday October 03 2016, @11:42PM
Cool. So then I want these smart-glasses definitely to pair up with my phone and the cloud. I'll also take a modified vibrating version of that ring thing you mention. I have this idea of teaching Siri how to dress naughty and parade in front of me before treating my Pride with outmost care. I'll then TM the name of the setup: "Radar Pace Virtua Rider".
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday October 04 2016, @02:08PM
displace a drone to catch
summoning a medical drone in time to save the brain, leaving the de-bodied person with no more a problem
The Culture series? :)
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by Type44Q on Tuesday October 04 2016, @09:18AM
am I just not attentive enough?
Rather than trying to think, you should clearly just stick to [whatever] it is that you do well... ;)