Heads-up display offers real-time data (pictures)
Recon Instruments' Recon Jet heads-up display and other in-eye microcomputers are aiming to map your active life.
Recon Jet glasses go for a ride
Recon Instruments' chief marketing officer tests the Recon Jet glasses during a bike ride earlier this year. The wearable computer, designed for active sports, includes Wi-Fi, ANT+, Bluetooth, GPS, HD camera, and a suite of sensors.
Nope, these aren't Google Glass.
Recon's Jet prototype sunglasses include a dual core processor, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, GPS and other sensors, and a high-definition video camera. The company expects to start selling them by the end of 2013.
Recon's Jet heads-up display sunglasses in black
Recon Instruments' prototype Jet sunglasses with a connected heads-up display in black.
Recon's previous generation heads-up display
Oakley, Alpina, Scott, and Zeal are using Recon's previous generation of in-goggle technology for skiing.
Oakley's Airwave heads-up display goggles
Oakley's Airwave displays on-mountain information in real time. With wrist controls, users can track speed, altitude, and friends' locations. The information is displayed in the user's line of sight.
Rider's view
A rider's view of the speed and altitude data being displayed in Oakley's new Airwave goggles.
Zeal Optics Z3 goggles
Ski data, uploaded from Zeal Optics Z3 goggles to Recon Instruments' Web site, mistakenly captured the wrong date and a wildly inaccurate distance measurement.
Read More: Skiing showdown, GPS-informed goggles miss the mark.
Enlarged view of in-goggle display
An enlarged view of the in-goggle display, showing max speed and altitude data.
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