Senth IN1, the augmented reality headset that enhances cycling
Bicycle fans, here is a big news for you: on Indiegogo has been launched the campaign to crowdfund a new augmented reality headset dedicated to enhance cycling experience!
Its name is Senth IN1, it comes from China and in just a month it almost reached the set goal of $40.000 for its campaing, but the project is older than this: Li Jiwen, engineer with a passion for cycling, and his crew at InSenth started working on the smart cycling glasses in late 2012 and from then they wanted to create a headset giving a new, incredible experience through augmented reality.
On Indiegogo we can read the creator’s words: “I love cycling. Some experience can only be achieved on the bike. I want to share what I see with my friends, access my real-time cycling data, interact with bikers to make my journey more exciting. Now we make it reality. You can do all these things during cycling. We are always on the ways and never stop!”
The concept at the base of this new headset is easy: the device is based on augmented reality and communicates with Android and iOS smartphones via Bluetooth technology, so the bikers are able to receive and make calls while riding and also to have in front of their eyes all kind of useful information like ride data (current speed, distance traveled, calories burned, etc), other users nearby, routes, and warnings of oncoming vehicles. Not just this: Senth IN1 can be used also to record video or take pictures without using the hands. It could be defined as a Google Glass for cycling, since like in the Google’s product a small transparent video image is projected in the lower corner of the user’s field of view; the user can communicate with the headset through remote, head movement, a little touchpad on the side of the glasses or voice command. Last but not least: it is completely waterproof.
This headset will probably be the dream of many cycling fans; to know something more watch the video below:
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Senth IN1: occhiali in realtà aumentata per ciclisti
La scoperta di un sentiero nascosto, di uno scorcio magico, di un lago che sembra incantato, tutto ciò accade solo a bordo della vostra bici, compagna di avventure volte alla scoperta di posti nuovi e scenari spettacolari. Il vostro sogno è di condividere con i vostri amici le meraviglie che incontrate lungo il vostro percorso?
Oggi è possibile, il sogno diventa realtà grazie all’arrivo dei nuovi occhiali in realtà aumentata Senth IN1, ideati e realizzati esclusivamente per i ciclisti.
I visori potranno essere collegati tramite Bluetooth con il vostro smartphone, compatibili sia con iOS che con Android, ciò vi consentirà di scattare foto, video di tutto ciò che incontrerete nel corso della vostra pedalata, e vi offrirà la possibilità di condividerli online. Ma non solo condivisione per questi innovativi occhiali, senza staccare le mani dallo sterzo, potrete effettuare e ricevere telefonate, selezionare la musica da ascoltare presente sul vostro dispositivo mobile, navigare sul web, tutto in piena sicurezza.
Se siete distratti durante una conversazione telefonica a bordo della vostro bici, Senth IN1 rileva e vi segnala i pericoli vicini, come ad esempio la presenza di un pedone, di una vettura o la possibilità di incontrare blocchi stradali.
Vi starete chiedendo come è possibile svolgere tutte queste azioni senza lasciare il manubrio?
La risposta è semplice potrete gestire il tutto attraverso comandi vocali e attraverso i movimenti del capo, oppure ancora posizionando un touchpad sull’astina degli occhiali o installando un telecomando sullo sterzo della bici, visualizzerete poi una piccola immagine video trasparente in un angolo del vostro campo visivo con tutte le informazioni.
Le funzioni non finiscono qui, potrete usare gli occhiali per tenere sotto controllo l’allenamento fisico, in quanto sono in grado di informarvi sui chilometri percorsi, sulle calorie bruciate, sulla velocità, sul tempo.
Da un punto di vista tecnico, gli occhiali sono ben fatti, dotati di una videocamera HD, di un microfono e di un altoparlante, gps, magnetometro, una batteria con un’autonomia di 5 ore facilmente cambiabile, quattro tipi di lenti intercambiabili a seconda della luce e delle condizioni meteorologiche.
Curiosi? Guardate il video dimostrativo.
Che dite amanti delle pedalate, vi entusiasmano?
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Magic Leap: the mysterious startup wanting to bring magic to the real world
During last weeks we already talked about some headsets and wearables on Experenti’s blog: from Hololens to Vive, from Google Glass to Sony SmartEyeglass; maybe we saw just the prototypes, but we know what to expect.
Today, instead, we are going to talk about a mysterious project that is keeping on their toes the Augmented and Virtual Reality enthusiasts from all over the world: about a year ago, Google invested no less than $ 542 million in a startup called Magic Leap. Of course, everyone started to wonder what was at the back of Magic Leap’s project to interest a colossus like the big G. The situation became thorny as the answers didn’t come.
What we know about Magic Leap is that they’re working on a wearable, probably a headset, which blends Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, and that it’s not meant to be used as stationary. Nothing more. Aren’t you starting to be curious too, now?
The world of the web and technology enthusiast was expecting some answer from the recent Reddit AMA that Magic Leap’s CEO Rony Abovitz held about a month ago. When the users asked Abovitz how he’d explain Magic Leap, he replied in an even more confusing way: “You can think of us as techno-biology,” he said. “We believe it is the future of computing.” Then he explained his meaning of techno-biology: “is the proper application of technology to our biology that leads to the experience of magic.”
From what can be understood, it seems Magic Leap will be different from other headset for a main point: if they put you in a virtual world, Magic Leap will focus on take the magic in the real world. He added that their technology is called “cinematic reality” and it’s not based on the use of stereoscopic 3D, but on Lilliputian projector to shine light and images into the user’s eyes instead.
After that occasion, another one filled the curious with expectations: in march, Rony Abovitz was supposed to appear at TED to talk about his company’s mysterious work. At the last moment, unluckily, the company deleted this and another appearance for reasons unknown. They sent a video, though, that left the users without words: this is what’s apparently happening in Magic Leap headquarters:
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