Gamification motivates many people to achieve goals that have eluded them for years. Anuj Malviya, Josh Elias Joy, and Akshay Phate created a wearable gaming system that can be used for exercise as part of the Wearable Systems Design course at IIIT Hyderabad. Here are the details from Instructables:
We designed a wearable gaming system that encourages people to exercise and entertains them at the same time. As for the game, we took inspiration from Google Chrome’s dinosaur game, but the caveat here is that you have to jump in the real world to play the game. We made it a multiplayer game to make it more competitive and fun.
A wearable gaming system consists of a receiver and a transmitter. The transmitter is a wearable device. Since we are building a two-player game, he needs two transmitters. The Receiver emulates a keyboard and sends the appropriate keystrokes to make the dinosaur jump when the player jumps.
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