Race Yourself - An Augmented Reality Platform For Smart Eyewear Devices

保持健康是人们在赛季结束后最常见的新年决心之一，然而，一旦最初的动力消退，保持动力和坚持不懈往往就很难了。Race Yourself是一款创新的智能眼镜设备增强现实应用程序，它将锻炼变成游戏，让你可以与自己、朋友甚至专业运动员比赛，在燃烧卡路里的同时提高个人最佳状态，全面改善身体健康。每一项成就都可以解锁各种令人震惊的富有想象力的新游戏模式。逃离僵尸部落，躲避巨石，躲避一辆400吨的货运列车，这些只是赛车手可以选择的几种场景。这项技术的目标是利用社交和令人上瘾的奖励驱动游戏来奖励赛车手，并激励他们在锻炼方案中坚持和改进。赛车概念非常受欢迎，我们的病毒式宣传视频每周获得10万次点击量，一些非常热情的媒体反馈：“我认为它将在…上大受欢迎这使它(锻炼)更上一层楼“--福克斯商业新闻记者查尔斯·佩恩”基于智能手机的成功，我们可以预测谷歌眼镜将成为下一个淘金热…他(亚历山大·福斯特)的推销就像一部科幻电影，辉煌。“-风险投资，记者，穆罕默德·埃拉尔吉，谷歌眼镜的杀手级应用？-史蒂夫·奥希尔，TechCrunch”顺便说一句，我爱比赛自己的概念…“太棒了”-乔治·德拉波塔斯-技术总监@谷歌“我不得不说，我花了大约4秒钟才明白你们在做什么，又花了大约2秒才决定这就是我买谷歌眼镜的原因。”--Experq(基于网络的软件公司)创始人延斯·索伦森成功退出。“锻炼真的进入了数字时代”--病毒式视频《Race Yourself可能只是完成工作的应用程序》--Masable记者内哈·普拉卡什

Getting fit is amongst the most common New Year resolutions following the season ofindulgence, however, once the initial momentum has subsided, maintaining motivation andpersevering is often difficult.Race Yourself is an innovative augmented reality application for smart eyewear devices, thatgamifies exercise allowing you to race against yourself, friends, and even professionalathletes, improving upon personal bests whilst burning calories and improving fitness andhealth overall. Each accomplishment can unlock a staggering variety of imaginative newgame modes. Escaping a zombie horde, avoiding giant boulders and evading a 400 tonnefreight train are just a few scenarios available to racers.The objective of the technology is to employ social and addictive reward driven game play toreward racers and incentivise adherence and improvement in an exercise regime.The Race Yourself concept has been extremely well received, netting > 100k views per weekof our viral promotional video, and some very enthusiastic press feedback:“I think it’s going to be a hit… this takes it (exercise) up several notches” – Charles Payne,Journalist, Fox Business News“Based on the success of the smartphone, we can predict that Google Glass will be the nextgold rush… his (Alexander Foster) pitch was like a sci-fi movie, brilliant.” – Venture Beat,Journalist, Mohammed Elalj“The killer app for Google Glass?” – Steve O’Hear, Journalist, TechCrunch“Btw, I love the race yourself concept … Awesome” – George Delaportas - TechnicalDirector @ Google“I have to say that it took me about 4 seconds to understand what you guys are working andabout another 2 seconds to decide this is the reason why I will buy Google Glass.” – JensSorensen, Founder of Experq (web based software company), successful exit.“Exercise has truly entered the digital age” – Viral viral video“Race Yourself might just be the app to get the job done” – Neha Prakash, Journalist,Mashable