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Re: Daqri Smart Helmet

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Post by smcl »

josephpmay wrote: post #7

I recently met their CEO, he's a brilliant guy. They recently bought an EEG neuroscience company and are already doing some really cool work with that technology. For example, if you stare at a switch, you might want to flip that switch, or perhaps you were just staring into space. What DAQRI does is have the switch pulse and then measure your EEG signal. If your stress level spikes, you didn't want the switch to fli…

Can you explain the bit about the switch a little better? I can't understand what is being controlled by what. Is it a physical switch in real life (i.e. is this an augmented reality thing) or is this a button in the UI

Re: Daqri Smart Helmet

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Post by iDemonix »

smcl wrote: post #21
josephpmay wrote: post #7

I recently met their CEO, he's a brilliant guy. They recently bought an EEG neuroscience company and are already doing some really cool work with that technology. For example, if you stare at a switch, you might want to flip that switch, or perhaps you were just staring into space. What DAQRI does is have the switch pulse and then measure your EEG signal. If your stress level spikes, you didn't want the switch to fli…

Can you explain the bit about the switch a little better? I can't understand what is being controlled by what. Is it a physical switch in real life (i.e. is this an augmented reality thing) or is this a button in the UI

It sounds like he was referring to a UI switch.

Re: Daqri Smart Helmet

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Post by nullhypothesis »

josephpmay wrote: post #7

I recently met their CEO, he's a brilliant guy. They recently bought an EEG neuroscience company and are already doing some really cool work with that technology. For example, if you stare at a switch, you might want to flip that switch, or perhaps you were just staring into space. What DAQRI does is have the switch pulse and then measure your EEG signal. If your stress level spikes, you didn't want the switch to fli…

I am very curious about the EEG bit you are talking about. If I remember, they bought MINDO which only uses frontal electrodes.

Now, I do not understand why a flashing switch should create stress.

Re: Daqri Smart Helmet

#26

Post by kayoone »

noir_lord wrote: post #20

As a keen cyclist I'd quite like to see this stuff built into a bike helmet, real time GPS, backwards looking camera, speed and route corrections, FLIR for night riding will be interesting to see where we are in 5 years if this takes off the price should fall pretty rapidly.

Exactly what i thought. It would need to look more subtle though, i don't want to get laughed at at every intersection because i look like some guy out of the Tron movie.

Re: Daqri Smart Helmet

#27

Post by kayoone »

Smart Helmets are really interesting for many use cases, but i would always be a bit concerned with the battery so close to my head, at these things technically can explode or catch fire. It's not much better with smartphones though, but still.

Re: Daqri Smart Helmet

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Post by monkmartinez »

kayoone wrote: post #26
noir_lord wrote: post #20

As a keen cyclist I'd quite like to see this stuff built into a bike helmet, real time GPS, backwards looking camera, speed and route corrections, FLIR for night riding will be interesting to see where we are in 5 years if this takes off the price should fall pretty rapidly.

Exactly what i thought. It would need to look more subtle though, i don't want to get laughed at at every intersection because i look like some guy out of the Tron movie.

I don't understand this. Who cares what other people think! You have ZERO control over the perception others have of you. The sooner you realize this the better.

I am teaching my 5 and 7 year old children this very important fact of life. The things you actually control are very, very limited. If you can't control your own heart beat, why would you worry about what others thought of your helmet, jeans, hair cut, shoes, etc? The fact is even if it was "cool" to some, it would be idiotic to others... and you have no control over either.

Re: Daqri Smart Helmet

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Post by monkmartinez »

slagfart wrote: post #9

They should have called it the DorkMax 7000. Is any industrial worker going to be seen dead wearing this thing, given how it appears currently?

On its own, a firefighter's helmet is a ridiculous piece of gear. It isn't particularly good at protecting the entire head, abysmal at protecting the face, and is top heavy.

We wear the helmet as part of an ensemble that could use a makeover for strictly functional purposes, quite frankly. However, tradition and perception have kept the U.S. fire service in this outdated piece of kit for decades. Perception and caring about what others think is silly. It is the equivalent of school age children caring about what "little Tommy" thinks of his/her shoes on the playground.

The fact is we can't control others perception. We can only control our thoughts and actions related to those thoughts. Society will not level up until we stop worrying about the perception others have of our stuff and/or the way we look.

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