New VR Cycling Goggles

[PedalUma]

There are new VR Cycling Goggles that are amazing! They tell your time, position, and orientation, speed, and have a map function built in without ever looking down at a screen. And you will never get lost because of the landmarks feature. The resolution is perfect. They work with a camera on each side between the temples and nose bridge so it is all projected in 3-D. The focus is perfect. They are solar powered so you never need to recharge and they track the sun's height and position to tell the time and where you are on the scale detailed map that also shows terrain. They work in conjunction with stereo earbuds that pick up ambient sounds so you know if a truck is approaching and can listen to bird song and so much more, like if there is a clack that calls for a barrel adjustment. The introductory price is also great.

 

[Chargeride]

Tell the time from the sun?

 

[LandoftheGiants]

... and where you are on the scale detailed map that also shows terrain. They work in conjunction with stereo earbuds that pick up ambient sounds so you know if a truck is approaching and can listen to bird song and so much more

Soon we won't need to leave the house/apartment to cycle, we can just sit on a trainer and enjoy endless rides on roads in far flung paradises. Imagine competing alongside ll Falco in the tour de france

 

[RunForTheHills]

Soon we won't need to leave the house/apartment to cycle, we can just sit on a trainer and enjoy endless rides on roads in far flung paradises. Imagine competing alongside ll Falco in the tour de france

That's actually a real thing you can get now. Look up Rouvy or Zwift. I wouldn't do it with a VR headset on, the sweat would probably destroy it. But Meta has changed focus to AR glasses anyway.

 

[Gionnirocket]

You couldn't give me anything from Meta.

 

[RunForTheHills]

You couldn't give me anything from Meta.

The idea of people walking around with cameras on their faces streaming data into Zuckerberg's data centers is kind of creepy. But maybe I am too old to appreciate the new technology.

 

[Chargeride]

 

[spokewrench]

The idea of people walking around with cameras on their faces streaming data into Zuckerberg's data centers is kind of creepy. But maybe I am too old to appreciate the new technology.

It makes sense for a bike with a privacy cockpit. I made mine from the black glass used on windows of Suburbans and Tundras, but it weighed 450 pounds. I made a better cockpit from the cardboard box that held a neighbor's refrigerator. I love the privacy. I figured that when I rode 100 yards to Laurel Avenue, the GPS lady would tell me when to turn and which way. I never got that far because I couldn't tell if I was going straight or circling.

If those glasses had an artificial horizon, they'd be a bargain at half the price.

 

[PedalUma]

The ones in the OP do, particularly when you look to the sea. I told a friend about them and he spent an hour trying to order them.

 

[PedalUma]

That good friend is totally into all the latest tech. But can't find his butt using both hands or tell you which direction is North.

 

[spokewrench]

He probably doesn't have to find his ass with his hands. He probably has a bidet. It would be a great accessory for an e-bike because it would allow me to keep both hands on the bar for safe riding. I hesitated to install one on my Abound for fear of being considered a snob, but now that I have a privacy cockpit, why not?

If he doesn't know which direction is north, he must not have a Morin Vion Mini 2000. I believe they cost $250 in 1975, which would be $1550 today. I got one for $3.

In 2008, the black band to my digital watch broke. The local Dollar General had a digital watch for a 6-year-old girl on sale for $.69 plus tax. The pins looked the same size as mine. Because my watch was bigger, maybe on my watch those little straps would go around my wrist. I bought it and put the straps on my watch. They were long enough. They were pale blue with pink accents and yellow flowers, which made it the best watch band I'd ever had. I was always removing my watch for various tasks, then wondering where I could put it where it wouldn't be stepped on, run over, or lost. With those straps, nobody was going to walk or roll over it, and I could spot it in a flash no matter how far I'd thrown it.

At first I was afraid it looked gay. I didn't want to spend my days tactfully declining the amorous advances of gay gentlemen, however practical my watch band might be. I tested it by waving to the mayor and later to his boyfriend. They waved back without even noticing my band. That was a revelation. My watch band was not gay.

The husbands in the neighborhood readily accepted my watch band, but their wives were frantic. A henpecked trucker made me an offer. He would drive me a mile to the local flea market and pay up to $3 for a conventional men's digital watch of my choosing if I would use its bands to replace the girly bands on my watch. Under enormous social pressure, I agreed. That's where I spotted the $3 Morin.

After 50 years, the tritium has faded, but I wear a headlamp to read it and other instrument in my privacy cockpit. That compass could guide me within 30 inches each hundred yards, close enough for the GPS lady. (I don't know whether to call her Alexis or Siri.) I've discovered that I cannot get an accurate Morin reading if I'm pedaling in circles because I don't know which way is up.

 

[LandoftheGiants]

The idea of people walking around with cameras on their faces streaming data into Zuckerberg's data centers is kind of creepy.

Well not just that, the pic posted shows a clutter of data but you can bet there will a lot more on the real set, like every McDonalds and other "affiliate" store flashing up onscreen as you ride past. 50% off sale HERE NOW, use meta code 77comeinsucker77

But maybe I am too old to appreciate the new technology.

No, you're just old enough not to be sucked in by every bit of tech that comes off the conveyor belt. Those glasses might be great for an urban delivery rider we could say, but they will invariable dumb the rider down by making them rely on the tech rather than using their brain to read maps and think ahead. Like the passengers on that space ship liner in the Disney movie Wally