Race Yourself - An Augmented Reality Platform For Smart Eyewear Devices

在放纵的季节过后，健身是最常见的新年决心之一，然而，一旦最初的动力消退，保持动力和毅力往往很难。Race Yourself是一款用于智能眼镜设备的创新增强现实应用程序，它将运动游戏化，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成绩，全面提高健身和健康水平。每一项成就都可以开启令人惊叹的各种富有想象力的新游戏模式。逃离僵尸部落，避开巨大的巨石，躲避400吨的货运列车只是赛车手可用的几个场景。这项技术的目的是利用社交和上瘾的奖励驱动的游戏来奖励赛车手，并激励他们坚持和改善运动制度。Race Yourself的概念非常受欢迎，我们的病毒式宣传视频每周的浏览量超过10万次，和一些非常热情的新闻反馈：“我认为这将是一个打击.这需要它（演习）几个档次”-查尔斯佩恩，记者，福克斯商业新闻“基于智能手机的成功，我们可以预测，谷歌眼镜将是下一个淘金热.他（亚历山大福斯特）球场就像一个科幻电影，辉煌。”- 风险节拍，记者，穆罕默德Elalj“谷歌眼镜的杀手级应用程序？”- Steve O 'Hear，TechCrunch记者“顺便说一句，我喜欢种族本身的概念.太棒了”-乔治Delaportas -技术总监@谷歌“我不得不说，我花了大约4秒的时间来理解你们在做什么，又花了大约2秒的时间来决定这就是我买谷歌眼镜的原因。”- JensSorensen，Experq（基于网络的软件公司）的创始人，成功退出。“运动已经真正进入了数字时代”-病毒视频“比赛你自己可能只是完成工作的应用程序”- Neha Prakash，记者，Mashable

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