Google Glass Release Date, Specs, Price, Review Update: Fitness Deemed To Be The Killer App For AR Lens, Glass Fit, Race Yourself The Next Big Thing?

Google glass release date, specs, price, review update is yet to be publicly launched; the verdict however is greatly focused at the killer apps of this wearable computer. Workout or exercise could be an added feature to its obvious use-case hands-free operation, points-of-interest and pedestrian navigation. As per Techcrunch.com, London-based Race Yourself is basically governed in this opinion, in racing over £100,000 in helping to launch its fitness app for Glass through seed funding on the equity-crowdfunding platform CrowdCube.

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 through its motivation from something like Nike Fuel or RunKeeper Band. Thus the privilege to racing 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.

Here is one great idea, 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.