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Heads Up: Strava App Coming for Google Glass

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Strava App for Google Glass

When Google Glass finally becomes available to the masses, Strava will be one of the first apps available. Things like the Recon Jet put graphical information available in a similar heads up display (and, arguably, in a better spot at the bottom of the lens), and Sportiiiis’ Cliiiimb system can give you audible and color-based visual updates on your performance in Strava. But Glass may be the first to put the two together – real-time Strava info and a beautiful GUI.

Of course, Recon’s system has an open API, so we imagine it won’t be long before they integrate Strava, too. And it doesn’t ship until Spring 2014, anyway. Whether you like it or not, the age of instant gratification and heads up displays is coming to cycling next year.

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Champs
Champs
10 years ago

Strava’s nice for tracking rides/finding routes, and I’m cautiously optimistic about Glass, but the hell if I’d wear $1500 worth of delicate equipment that won’t hold up to a crash or some rain.

A cheap bike computer tells me all the stuff I want to know on the ride, and I can wait until I’m home to find out just how much I suck.

mudrock
10 years ago

who needs riding buddies? just u and yr glasses.

The_D
The_D
10 years ago

Strava’s a bit of a mixed blessing; I mean, there’s friendly competition and there’s compulsiveness, and confusing the two kind of creates mixed agendas on group rides, which sucks. But if these sorts of products can help riders flow from fun ride into structured intervals and back with just some unobtrusive prompts, I’d like that. I just don’t know if I’d new-wheelset-dollars like it.

Petr
Petr
10 years ago

Strava should start with ant+ support and other sensors type, that would be more help then such toys. 🙁

Doug B
Doug B
10 years ago

Just make sure your ride is less than two hours or your glass will go flat.

Demetri
10 years ago

This would be even more useful to me if it could show me real-time Gaps in Races and for Time Trials: the seconds in front or seconds behind the leading time . Wow! That would make it worth the new-wheels-dollars 🙂

Hmmm
Hmmm
10 years ago

Not many people seem worried about the risks of having an RF transmitter stuck to their temple!!?? I don’t care what safety standards it ‘complies’ to……

pornitswhatlwouldratherbmaking
pornitswhatlwouldratherbmaking
10 years ago

keep your eyes on the road!

notapro
notapro
10 years ago

I know a lot of cyclists now. I only know less than a dozen riders

Paul
Paul
10 years ago

Just because we both ride bikes does not make us friends.

PBJoe
PBJoe
10 years ago

Funny because the same guy who will be using this won’t see the irony of adding more weight than he just spent $2500 on a pair of wheels to remove…

Cyclecat
Cyclecat
10 years ago

I agree with notapro. I don’t pay for Strava, but I’m amazed at the amount of people who pay for it and barely ride. Enjoy the ride. Pay attention to the road and not so much to all of those numbers.

Anonymous
Anonymous
10 years ago

Demetri, the UCI bans racers from using something like that. Even if they didn’t you’d need way more staff at local races to collect info like that and upload it to some sort of central server, making the race far more expensive.

Ilikeicedtea
Ilikeicedtea
10 years ago

@PBJoe – If you’re spending $2500 to lose 50 grams, you’re doing it wrong.

patrik
patrik
10 years ago

The d0uche factor has just been cranked up to 11. I stopped riding with some “buddies” due to their over dependence on Strava. Nice mellow MTB rides have turned into slamfests with nary a word exchanged at beautiful vista points. MTB rides are slowly turning into road rides, where the talk slowly morphs from IPAs and weed to watt output and power meters.

Mattbyke
Mattbyke
10 years ago

So many strava records to be crushed , using the Moto.

Dan
Dan
10 years ago

@patrik – I feel ya on that one. Moar beer less power meters!

john
john
10 years ago

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