THESIS
2018
xi, 107 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Abstract
Star Wars and Ironman brought the concept of augmented reality(AR) to the public. In 2012,
Google released the google glass and failed. Afterwards, the market is waiting for a better
application of augmented reality. In this paper, a new application, a smart diving mask with
augmented reality is proposed. There are multiple benefits to integrate augmented reality to
scuba diving.
First, Google glass was targeting a daily life situation where users did not have need to monitor
information constantly. On the other hand, scuba divers always have vital data to monitor and
augmented reality can greatly assist divers. Second, scuba divers are high income individual
that have high purchasing power. By setting a higher price, a few hundred units’ sales can
cover the research and deve...[
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Star Wars and Ironman brought the concept of augmented reality(AR) to the public. In 2012,
Google released the google glass and failed. Afterwards, the market is waiting for a better
application of augmented reality. In this paper, a new application, a smart diving mask with
augmented reality is proposed. There are multiple benefits to integrate augmented reality to
scuba diving.
First, Google glass was targeting a daily life situation where users did not have need to monitor
information constantly. On the other hand, scuba divers always have vital data to monitor and
augmented reality can greatly assist divers. Second, scuba divers are high income individual
that have high purchasing power. By setting a higher price, a few hundred units’ sales can
cover the research and development cost of the product. Third, the scuba diving equipment
market is around 2.7 billion US dollars, which is a prefect beachhead market for startup since
tech giant is not likely to compete in this market. Finally, a AR diving mask can improve
convenience and safety of scuba divers.
In this thesis, multiple optical designs are proposed and tested. A final design was accomplished
which has low manufacturing cost, reasonable field of view and form factor. A smart diving
mask prototype was built and went through pool testing, pressure chamber testing (50 meters)
and ocean testing. Future business development plan was documented in this thesis. A Patent
Cooperation Treaty (PCT) was filed on 13 August 2018.
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