Google Glass Release Date, Specs, Price, Review Update: Will Fitness Apps Make A Killing With The AR Lens? Race Yourself Crowdfunds £100K For Its Glass Fit App

Google glass release date, final specs and price are still all in the works, but developers have begun working on apps for the high profile AR lens. Google has also been partnering with many of them, even inviting developers to their Mountain View campus to bunk up and begin coding Glass apps with the Google Glass Project team.

In what is a signal of early interest in fitness-related, workout and exercise apps, a London-based tech start-up has successfully crowdfunded their way to create such a Glass app. According to Techcrunch.com, London-based Race Yourself has received over £100,000 in seed funding on the equity-crowdfunding platform CrowdCube to help launch its fitness app for Glass.

To gamify running or other exercise types through the utilization of augmented kinds of reality experiences that can be used on Glass is the idea behind Glass Fit, the concept inspired by wearable gadgets like Nike Fuel and RunKeeper Band. Glass Fit makes it possible to race live against your previous all time “personal best” or anytime in your GlassFit history is possible. This means that running against friends is now possible.

Race Yourself plans to launch with GlassFit’s hundreds of mini games upon launching. The idea is the same with cycling where there is a need to take into consideration the horrible traffic lights or acceleration period. And here is one idea to get you moving –getting chased by numerous augmented reality zombies!

According to Alex Foster, co-founder of Race Yourself, “Exercise is incredibly good for you. Gaming is incredibly addictive and enjoyable. Our goal is make exercise incredibly addictive and enjoyable through augmented reality exercise experiences on, primarily, Google Glass,” adding “We are offering similar promises; more motivation, tracking, competition… but visually and live, that is, the user knows if they are beating or falling behind their personal best or target pace the whole way through the run.”

The app will as well include things like tap to pause or “touch your toes” through using Glass’ other sensors. You will be deemed as if you have an injury or the like since it says it’s developed an “injury mode” in the UK start up, so basically doing more dynamic or static stretches can be expected whenever necessary.

“We offer over a hundred games and feature upgrades to keep the experience alive,” says Foster referring to what inspired the business model of GlassFit which is the gaming industry adding that “The user earns points from burning calories, beating personal bests and building streaks. These points can be used to unlock the games off the honeycomb UI. The better the game /feature the harder it is to unlock. Any unlock can be shortcuts, and it is those shortcuts that we charge for and make money from. We also sell heart rate monitors and speedometers that certain functions require to use.”

A pre-sales /Kickstarter campaign will be implemented for the UK startup in the next month or two while coinciding with Google’s full Glass launch is the launch date of GlassFit as well. Although this sounds and appears to be a very risky launching strategy for Google Glass, Race Yourself is thinking that Google is able to quickly make a Glasshole out once publicly available.

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