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I actually turned down an offer from Skully a little over a year ago. They flew me in and had me spend a week with the team. Their offer was on the low side but I was super excited about the technology, an augmented reality helmet is something I had been dreaming of since I started riding a motorcycle. However, after spending a week there it was pretty clear to me that they were in a bad place managerially, so I ran…
Its crowdfunding page, on Indiegogo, is a bit bizarre to me: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/skully-ar-1-the-world-s-s... 1,940 backers for $2.44 million, and only 24 comments? For a project with this many backers with this much skin in the game, comments usually number in the hundreds (if not thousands), especially as it becomes apparent that the campaign will miss its estimated delivery dates. Even though Skully…
$2,446,824 USD raised by 1940 backers 979% of $250,000 flexible goal Did they ship to all the Kickstarter backers?
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Where do you live so I can avoid going there?
It's like that everywhere in the US. Not always legal, and also incredibly rude (frowned upon).
[0] Rule 88: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-motor...
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Where do you live so I can avoid going there?
It's like that everywhere in the US. Not always legal, and also incredibly rude (frowned upon).
I've seen large motorbikes fitting through gaps that simply don't look big enough, but I've never actually seen anyone get a wing mirror knocked off. (I guess bikers develop a very accurate mental picture of how wide their bike is).
Nobody considers it rude, as it doesn't slow down the cars in the slightest. The bikes simply fit through the gaps. Can anyone explain the American take on this?
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Investors will look at financial statements (in whatever sad form they exist at most startups), but they don't look at itemized expenses. They also expect lots of money to be spent. For example, let's say I wanted to take an expensive vacation. I would fly to Europe (1st class, of course), stay in nice hotels, and basically live it up. I would mark this down as a "recruiting expense", or "customer acquisition cost".…
I'm not sure if you're being tongue in cheek, but if not, honest question: aren't those examples of actual fraud rather than "just" frivolous spending?
Kim Dotcom in 2000, posing with his model girlfriend in front of a superyacht…a year later he had multimillion euro investments from TÜV and BMP.
Want the company to buy a motorbike or car for "Product testing"? Totally legit - but it belongs to the company. Use it for personal use, and in most countries you'll be hit with a tax bill.
Mixed-purpose trips such as "Customer acquisition in Europe"? There are specific rules governing whether/how it's taxed: http://www.lewis-knopf.com/newsletters/financial-rx-article/...
Pesky taxmen. They thing of everything.
So having used the recon line of products (which this is a spiritual cousin of) I can only say that these kinds of displays are kinda dodgy. When skiing anything resembling challenging terrain, the stuff is bouncing around and my ability to focus universally across on the then 2nd gen recon displays was simply not possible. I'm a decent skier, but not that crazy and I ended up returning the smith io/x using the recon…
A true HUD doesn't need you to look away, or refocus your eyes. The Recon screen's position (near the bottom of the goggles) means you have to almost go cross-eyed to read it, and focus on short-distance…absolutely not what you want when you're skiing!
Their handbook says it should only be looked at when stationary.
BMW's HUD looks like the way forward : a sunken dash-mounted display, which projects the data onto the windscreen. In other words a true HUD: directly in your line of sight, no need to refocus your eyes.
I'd be interested to understand if there's some technical limitation preventing this approach with goggles/helmets.
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It's like that everywhere in the US. Not always legal, and also incredibly rude (frowned upon).
Contrast with the UK where 'filtering' is legal [0] and I have never heard anything negative about it. Riders filtering won't cause me as a driver any delay. [0] Rule 88: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-motor...
You can fail your motorcycle test for not filtering when appropriate.
I actually turned down an offer from Skully a little over a year ago. They flew me in and had me spend a week with the team. Their offer was on the low side but I was super excited about the technology, an augmented reality helmet is something I had been dreaming of since I started riding a motorcycle. However, after spending a week there it was pretty clear to me that they were in a bad place managerially, so I ran…
Do you think BMW will ever truly productize their AR helmet though? I always thought of that as a fun research project, and that's it. I know that I, as a fellow rider, would never use an AR helmet - too much distraction.
- get my speed (for a traffic cam for instance)
- have an almost 180 degrees view of what's behind me: no blind spot
- get directions (I usually do it from memory, I don't use a GPS on my bike just because of the distraction reason)
Keep in mind we ride between traffic lanes here so the more I can look ahead, the better.