Daqri Smart Helmet

ive been waiting for something like this come along. Google glass and MS Hololense will be much more powerful once they exploit the computing space a helmet allows for.

Re: Daqri Smart Helmet

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Post by runamok » Tue, Mar 01, 2016, 4:43 AM UTC

DiabloD3 wrote: post #3

They do know that sounds a lot like "daiquiri", right? Thats sort of a branding fail.

Like 'Amazon'?

Re: Daqri Smart Helmet

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Post by Uhhrrr » Tue, Mar 01, 2016, 5:34 AM UTC

runamok wrote: post #5

DiabloD3 wrote: post #3

They do know that sounds a lot like "daiquiri", right? Thats sort of a branding fail.

Like 'Amazon'?

Amazon is a mighty river or a fierce warrior. Daquiris are for casual drinkers who want to get hammered in Vegas.

Re: Daqri Smart Helmet

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Post by josephpmay » Tue, Mar 01, 2016, 6:25 AM UTC

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 flip. If the opposite happens, you did want to flip the switch and the action goes through. Their helmets also use the EEG sensor (combined with an oximeter I think) to be able to detect heart attacks and call an ambulance before you realize what's happening.

They also took over actively maintaining ARToolkit, which had become neglected in recent years. The reason they did this was they hated seeing researchers using Vuforia (a closed source black-box) and wanted the standard for AR to be open source again.

Re: Daqri Smart Helmet

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Post by josephpmay » Tue, Mar 01, 2016, 6:27 AM UTC

DiabloD3 wrote: post #3

They do know that sounds a lot like "daiquiri", right? Thats sort of a branding fail.

How they came up with that name is an entertaining story. The founder wrote a script to find five-letter .com domains that had QR (as in QR code) and AR in them. However, he forgot to specify that the R should come immediately after the A, and DAQRI was the result.

Re: Daqri Smart Helmet

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Post by slagfart » Tue, Mar 01, 2016, 8:30 AM UTC

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?

Re: Daqri Smart Helmet

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Post by svantana » Tue, Mar 01, 2016, 8:37 AM UTC

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?

Agree, they should tone down the 80's sci-fi vibe IMHO. But I think you may overestimate the control your average industrial worker has over their work situation. That is, if it helps the bottom line, these will be bought and deployed by the owners/management, and there is little the workers can do about it.