FalconWorks demonstrated in 2016 at the US Air Force Academy that a modern wheelchair can be controlled with a pair of head-mounted Recon Jet glasses. The cadets won numerous awards and commendations for their work, which now lets a person with quadriplegia control two donated wheelchairs.
A longer-term goal is to interface the glasses, through the cadet-developed interface, with a donated NASCAR race car.
DireenTech was a big part of the NeuroGroove Race Day at the Monster Mile in Dover, Delaware, on September 28, 2017, hosted by Furniture Row Racing and Dover International Speedway. Working with cadet teams at the Air Force Academy, and sponsored by FalconWorks, Falci Adaptive Biosystems and Numotion, DireenTech developed a control system that lets a person with quadriplegia drive a wheelchair with only head movements. The wheelchair was donated by Quantum and Numotion, and the technology was successfully demonstrated at the race day. DireenTech was then tasked with bringing the technology to the NeuroGroove race car; see Adaptive Technologies for where that went.
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