Rekkie Smart Snow Goggles Made Possible with 3D Printing | The Cool Parts Show #53

When brothers Henry and David Pease began developing their Rekkie augmented reality goggles for downhill skiers, the two assumed that the enclosure for the necessary electronics would eventually be injection molded. But when the design proved to be expensive to recreate through molding, the Peases took a more serious look at 3D printing. They partnered with Design Fusion, a 3D printing brokerage, to continue to finesse the design and move into production with Multi Jet Fusion (MJF). The product, now for sale, reflects nuances of assembly, aesthetics and user experience that would not have been possible otherwise.
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[@MarkLawry]

Nice work! The video does a great job letting all the players tell the story.

[@DescartesRenegade]

I'm shocked MJF doesn't get more publicity than it does. Incredible 3D printed quality.

[@alexlimtiaco1197]

homeboy should have just worn a watch lol. Also MJF is the absolute King!!!

[@divineikegod920]

Thank you the show 👍

[@Antichamberteam80110H]

These videos are great!

[@timg.413]

God this would be amazing in the military.

[@lupusk9productions]

Love this show! I need to find a place like this near tampa that I can apply at. Would love to work in this industry

[@stevesloan6775]

Fantastic idea, but....I would like to see the box located in the a jacket pocket and have a cord running to the goggles. Id be worried the goggles could come off in an emergency situation like avalanche and loose the location of the wearer.

[@henrypease9477]

Hi Steve, thanks! The box is light weight and grips the helmet well, and location is actually measured by the GPS in your phone. However, for an avalanche situation where precise location is needed, REKKIE Goggles are NOT a substitute for a beacon (and probe, shovel, and proper training). We tried running the cord down to your jacket pocket in some early prototypes, and honestly it was kind of annoying vs the strap mounted enclosure - kind of like airpods vs old wired earbuds.

[@fajile5109]

I could wear these and pretend im a helicopter. That heads up display makes me just 😮‍💨😍😍😍

[@raulkaap]

Since I subscribed to this channel, I seem to get more interesting ads. Ads about machines and processes, not food delivery or gambling.

[@lastofthelostsouls629]

So you have to be in service for this to work? What about back country?

[@henrypease9477]

There’s a built-in 915 MHz radio, so if 2 people have REKKIE Goggles in the backcountry, they can still see each other’s live location

[@logankeppo]

From what I’ve read, the previous reply is correct. The only time that doesn’t work is if say you have the goggle and the other doesn’t, you need service to transmit location

[@bluegizmo1983]

There's nothing "augmented reality" about those skii google. That's simply a HUD (heads up display), that's NOT augmented reality. For it to truly qualify as an augmented reality device, it would need to do something like overlay a line on the skii path (sort of like racing video games do with the racing line), or visual outline/highlight your friend when they are in your field of view, or something like that.

[@MrMaxineter12]

You are completely right

[@GitDatPC]

I'm interested in this for electric unicycle riders 😎

[@AdditiveManufacturing]

Wish we knew some electric unicycle lingo to reply cleverly, but we're sure they could function on the slopes and the streets.

[@GitDatPC]

@AdditiveManufacturing The real-time speed readout is perfect 👍 It'd be awesome if somehow other monitoring apps could be projected in the HUD as well. The biggest thing would be PWM percentage, which tells us when we're about to eat pavement if it hits 100% lol

[@user-tj8zk7jm2g]

How much for this?

[@AdditiveManufacturing]

That information will be available on the Rekkie website: rekkie.com/ Thanks for watching!

[@Nobody-Nowhere]

probably more of a HUD than augmented reality

[@JMU365]

This is super cool. it's really awesome to see science progressing in light of the political hellfire we are in.