Smart helmet turns workers into ... superheroes

The Daqri smart helmet will turn factory workers into superheroes.

Equipped with a variety of sensors and cameras , this smart hat functions as a virtual reality goggles, which will help workers gather information layers of what they are looking at.

Smart helmet functions like a virtual glass.

Josh Littlefield, Daqri's business manager, said: " We are fundamentally changing what people can do ."

What can this smart helmet do?

Imagine you are probing a system of pipes and glass, you know how inside those pipes are operating, such as pipe pressure, or can easily be detected. problems that are difficult for the eye to do. That is the function of Daqri helmet.

Helmets support users to observe objects that the eyes cannot see.

This is the time of the emergence of virtual reality glasses like Oculus, PlayStation VR . But Daqri is a pre-era product, designed specifically for construction workers to help them work better. , give out the exact information they need.

Littlefield added: " This hat will help to better convey information to workers ."

In many factories, people sit in the technical management room and dispatch workers to handle the problem if it happens. But with this Daqri hat, they just need to look directly at the circuit board and know exactly where to repair.

The Daqri helmet is equipped with many cameras, they are operated by an Intel computer and use separate software. Imagine you are a normal person and can't see through the pipe, Daqri's hat can read the temperature of the pipe with the camera that measures the heat.

Smart helmets provide safety protection for users when working.

And of course, Daqri also functions as a helmet, which will prevent hard objects from hurting you.

The company that manages this Daqri hat will focus on marketing its products in oil and gas construction sites, construction sites and a number of other heavy industrial sites. This product is expected to be sold in the second quarter.

But Daqri's price is not cheap, this smart helmet will cost between $ 5,000 and $ 15,000, the price will depend on the requirements of the corporations, this price is also many times more expensive than Hololens. Microsoft.

The smart hat knows where you are moving, and it can reproduce the 3D image of the environment you are in. When you are at the construction site, you have a lot of workers using this hat, they will share the information they have and the operator will figure out that the whole site is working with the same progress as how.