May 2019 | AR Digital Track Driving Assistant

WIP

Apex is a system of products for novice racetrack drivers that provides real time on-track driving instruction, and in depth performance analysis in order to help break down the entry barriers of the racing sport.

The Product Kit allows On-Track Assistance to help drivers improve their skills at each milestone in their career. The Website allows Pre-Event Preparation & Post-Event Drive Analysis, to help racers prepare for an event and identify their problems after a session in order to improve.

Drivers can study their specific racetrack before an event. On event day they can rent The Apex Product Kit, get live on track instruction without the need of an instructor. The race data is logged into the Apex online server. They can then look at an in depth lap by lap analysis of their race sessions to learn from their mistakes with a coach or with their racing community.

A HUD helmet that augments a real time “drive line” in front of the user’s eyes using waveguides and lasers. The goal was to create a system of products that were intuitively instructive at a glance and easy to use for first time users while avoiding intimidating and unnecessary form elements that pollute helmet designs of today.

Decreases dependency of visual aid in four phases to help drivers improve.

The Apex Dash is a virtual image stabilizer, compatible with the Vista, that communicates secondary driving and safety information. The Dash maintains a low profile placed within the driver’s peripheral vision that does not distract eyes from the road.

The Dash has a grid of LEDs that allows the Vista to map images in harsh and changing lighting conditions on track days. ~ The Vista - using a combination of OIS and EIS and Marker and GPS AR in order to stabilize augmented images.

The signals adapt and change according to different dash profiles while also keeping a low profile but also maintaining a very legible size. The driver can customize his personal signal layout according to need. Overtime the design could be improved with software updates.

The Apex Link is a smart (EMG) band that recognizes motion and hand gestures through muscle tracking and turns them into communication signals, allowing driver to driver communication and driver to marshal communication.

Keeps a record of driver’s hand position and other used to spot unsafe hand positions on steering wheel which should be at 9 and 3 o’clock. Logs bad habits into server.

Allows hand gestures to control Vista’s interface.