ConnectedRide

Apple still hasn’t quite given the world a great reason to spend $3,500 on its Vision Pro AR/VR headset, nor even released it, but BMW Motorrad, the automakers’ motorcycle division, believes it’s come up with a convincing reason for riders to wear smart glasses. The company’s new ConnectedRide Smartglasses position dashboard metrics in riders’ field of view so they never have to take their eyes off the road.Cops Pull Over Self-Driving CarEven with the success of Meta’s and HTC’s VR devices, convincing consumers that…

We've seen several attempts to create head-up display smartglasses for motorcyclists in the past, and we've been wildly unenthusiastic so far ... but that just changed.BMW Motorrad is demonstrating what it is calling "ConnectedRide Smartglasses" at BMW Motorrad Days in Berlin this weekend with release imminent at a price of EUR €690.00 (around USD $750). Obviously there'll be a period where supplies reach shores distant to the motherland, but you won't need a BMW to use the glasses, and if my 50+ years of experience…