Augmented Reality Bike Helmet

Project description

The advent of augmented reality technologies for cyclists could have a profound effect on cyclist usership, the overall physical health of a population and mitigation of traffic congestion. Throughout the course of this project the group faced many challenges. Ultimately, we would like to see that the development of such a project could act as a precursor to future technologies with similar goals and motives within the cycling community. The final prototype for this project was successfully created and tested after the design and assembly phase was accomplished. Overall, the device successfully increased riders' awareness on the road by correctly detecting oncoming vehicles and indicating the information to the rider via projected display. Due to the added blind spot detection, though, there was not enough time or testing data to justify the claim that the device reduces the amount of collisions between bikers and vehicles.