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Jay Greene wears Zeal Optics Z3 goggles, which use GPS technology and a heads up display to let skiers know how fast they're moving and how far they gone.
As a skier, I've often wondered how fast I'm skiing when I'm skiing really fast.
Turns out it's 44.7 miles per hour.
I got my answer from Zeal Optics's Z3 goggles during a December trip to Whistler Blackcomb mountain in British Columbia. The Z3s are a new, and very expensive, breed of goggles that capture data using GPS technology and flash it on a tiny heads up display unit at the bottom of the field of vision on the right side of lens. Zipping down Springboard, a wide open, groomed intermediate run, the tiny display ticked off my speed as the slope steepened and the wind whistled past me. The devices include tiny GPS receivers and a set of sensors to provide speed, distance, vertical descent data, and more. I also brought along goggles from Oakley and Smith Optics that use Recon's heads up displays to test during my ski trip as well.
But after five days on the mountain in Whistler and two days at Crystal Mountain in Washington state, I can't recommend buying any of the goggles. As cool as the heads up display technology is, the goggles routinely faltered, not New Era Hats charging in some instances, not connecting to a separate controller unit at other times, and offering up a baffling collection of error messages that could only be deciphered by a coding geek.
Those glitches are particularly problematic for goggles that start at a wallet busting suggested retail price of $450 and climb to $650. The most expensive pair cost as much as a weeklong lift ticket at Whistler, and nearly three times as much as the most expensive gadget free goggles from Oakley, often the priciest of New Era Snapbacks goggle makers. With that price tag, the heads up goggles should be reliable. But they're not.
Let's start with the Oakley Airwave. These $600 babies are beautiful goggles. Oakley has the whole industrial design thing nailed. The Airwaves fit well with all the different ski helmets new era uk that my friends and family use. The "White Factory Text" graphics with the "Fire Iridium" lenses I tried look, well, pretty badass, to be honest. supreme hats And, as goggles, they work great, giving skiers fog free viewing while filtering out 100 percent of ultraviolet light.
Oakley Airwave goggles use GPS and a heads up display to let skiers keep track of their speed and distance traveled.
The goggles offered so much promise. I wasn't just going to be able to track my speed. I could also have seen the distance I traveled, my current altitude, and my total vertical descent. I was even going to be able to pair the heads up display with my iPhone so I could view incoming calls and texts, a nifty little feature that would have let me ignore all my work calls and only respond to the ones from my wife, kids, and friends with whom I was skiing, to meet up for lunch or an end of the day run. There's even a way to control my music playlists so I could rock out to just the right tunes.
But it was all for naught. The problem, for me, was that the Recon heads up display unit was finicky to a fault. For several days, it simply wouldn't charge. So I shelved the goggles, only to try a few days later, when they actually did charge up. trukfit hats Please try again."
But I couldn't try again. That's because I needed to click "force close" using a wireless controller that comes with every Recon unit. The controller, though, hadn't paired with the goggles yet. So there was no way to force close Cowboy Hats the application. And restarting the heads up display just triggered the same error message. So I was unable to demo the technology on the Oakleys at all. (A Recon spokesman later said the company is aware of the mitchell and ness snapbacks bug and Snapback Hats plans to fix it with the next software update.)
I was ready to write my Recons off as merely a defective set of goggles. But I had trouble with Smith's I/O Recon goggles as well.
Like the Airwaves, the $650 I/O Recons are a great looking goggle. The design is based on Smith's top of the line I/O new era caps goggles, a model that I've used for the past year and loved. The I/O Recons are trim, remarkably fog free, and use the I/O's easy to swap lens system, making it a snap to new era snapbacks switch lenses when the days go from sunny to gray.
And for the first few days, the I/O Recons worked pretty well. I was able to track my speed and check the distance I traveled. It was fun, albeit a bit chicago bulls snapback dangerous, to see if I could beat my top speed. And I loved one of the simplest features of the goggles: the clock at the bottom of the screen. Neff Beanies I never had to take off my gloves and fish underneath my parka to find my watch to figure out the time.
But after three days of use, the I/O Recons started to show some flaws. That was the day a friend, Patricia, was using them. For an hour or so, the display kept running through a tutorial on how to use the goggles and wouldn't stop, no matter how often she pressed a button, any button, on the controller. And then it stopped on its own. And then it restarted, without any help, and ran through the tutorial again.
informed goggles miss the mark
