Luxottica and Intel Launch Smart Eyewear: Radar Pace

FOOTHILL RANCH, CA --- Luxottica Group and Intel launch Radar Pace, a smart eyewear featuring a real-time voice activated coaching system. Seeking to redefine the way athletes train, Radar Pace is the result of years of research and development between Luxottica’s Oakley brand and Intel. This revolutionary device, launching today on Oakley.com and in select Oakley retail stores, creates dynamic and personalized training programs, tracks performance, coaches in real-time and responds naturally to questions asked by the user.

Oakley and Intel teamed up to create a product that would allow athletes of all types to not only train hard but train well by equipping them with rich information and real-time feedback. Combining Oakley’s performance-centric design aesthetic with Intel’s experience-driven technology, Radar Pace delivers a truly innovative and personalized training mechanism for athletes of all skill levels.

Radar Pace is a virtual coach that supports athletes during every step of their running and cycling training journey – interpreting data in real-time, providing personalized and actionable instruction and motivation during the course of a workout and holding athletes accountable to a structured and dynamic training program. With a hands-free conversational interface powered by Intel® Real Speech, Radar Pace helps athletes stay focused and maintain optimal training position, and the Bluetooth® audio headset allows athletes to place and receive calls and texts and listen to music.

Continuing Oakley’s legacy of performance wearable technology and leveraging Intel’s innovation leadership, Radar Pace combines the power of possibility with the power of technology for a unique performance experience.

TRACKS

With smart technology, external sensors and the Radar Pace app, the device collects and analyzes personal performance data (including power output, heart rate, speed, cadence, time, pace and distance) and equips athletes with rich information and real-time, audio coaching. The customized running or cycling programs calibrate based on performance, track performance compliance and adjust to make up for missed workouts. Instead of just giving athletes data, Radar Pace provides actionable feedback that is easy to digest, understand and implement.

COACHES

Radar Pace is a reliable virtual coach that supports every step of the training journey. Similar to a human coach, it creates a training program for athletes of all types – knowing what was accomplished to date and setting the goal for the next task ahead.

By interpreting data in real-time and providing personalized instruction and motivation based on performance, the eyewear holds athletes accountable to a structured and dynamic training program, seeking to transform how athletes track and understand performance.

With feedback provided directly through the eyewear, Radar Pace helps athletes make real-time adjustments without fumbling with a phone or watch. Radar Pace helps athletes stay focused on their goals and performance.

RESPONDS

Radar Pace’s natural voice interaction, powered by Intel® Real Speech, allows athletes to ask Radar Pace questions, receive real-time feedback and improve their understanding of the performance metrics tracked by the eyewear and external sensors. The device is intuitive, natural and hands-free so athletes can communicate with the system in a live, natural way during workouts.

Oakley products and technologies were designed with the world’s best athletes in mind, but the brand also believes that those same products and technologies should be made available to all. With real-time, personalized feedback, Radar Pace is a training coach for athletes of all levels.

Radar Pace also features Oakley Prizm, a revolutionary lens technology that dramatically enhances detail to help improve performance by providing ultra-precise color tuning, designed for specific environments. The Prizm Road lens that comes with Radar Pace brightens whites and enhances yellows, greens and reds so runners and cyclists can see subtle changes in road texture and spot hazards more easily for a confident training experience.

Radar Pace is made of two primary components: Oakley eyewear with integrated earbuds and microphone, and a mobile app for iOS and AndroidTM. The Radar Pace app is available for free download from the Apple App Store or on Google PlayT.

Radar Pace is available at http://www.oakley.com
Additional information is available at http://www.luxottica.com