Glide

Inspiration

Have you recorded a first pov video and wondered why watching the video felt so thrilling and bland compared to when you were recording the video? Frank is a skydiving enthusiast and his greatest pleasure in his free time is to go to various skydiving clubs. He wondered the same thing.

What it does

Our application, Glide, makes extreme sports like skydiving less dependent on environment, physical fitness, and guts. Glide lowers the barrier to participation in extreme sports like skydiving. It makes it easier for more people to participate and feel the joy of these sports. And reduce the risk of novice participation. This type of sport, which only a small percentage of people can participate in, can be shared with more people. We hope Glide could let people try more things without worries.

How we built it

Glide is a testing device that users can carry on their bodies during skydiving. While they are skydiving, Glide will collect data from motion, GPS, temperature, and air pressure. We use bluetooth to connect with our computer. (Details about how the data was collected). Then, we put all the data in a database. This database includes data from all the people who skydive with the practical Glide. When users are not convenient for real skydiving, they can connect Glide's data to 4D chairs and VR glasses. Use the real skydiving data to experience the closest to reality scenario.

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What we learned

What's next for Glide

Future More applications: Skydiving is just a start. Our application can use similar data to recreate other situations as well. It can be used for experience, training, and sharing. Experience: Allow people with disabilities or are too afraid to experience an event to be able to have the same experiences minus the risks that are imposed by the actual event, such as skydiving. Sharing: Saving the data, the experience can be emulated many times. After skydiving, people can exchange experiences of the event by experiencing what each other felt during the skydiving, and share wisdom. Training: In the future our application can be used for training people in emulated situations. For example, training new skydivers. Because this devkit is able to record air pressure, temperature, and motion, we could attach the devkit to, and recreate the experience using the data transmitted to give the experience of being there without the risks. Though we are focusing on skydiving now, in the future, this application could be used to emulate more extreme environments such as space exploration. For example, before sending people to mars, we can have them experience Mars by attaching the devkit to a rover in mars.