HERMES
Concept Design
Mixed reality. Your world is the canvas.
A concept MR headset developed with China Unicom and the Crafterwork for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Pairing 5G with mixed reality, HERMES anticipates the athlete’s next second — pose, trajectory, fatigue — and folds cloud-side compute back into their field of view as overlays anchored to the world, not pinned to a screen.
Hermes is engineered to disappear in motion. Inference runs at the 5G edge, predictions return as world-anchored overlays, and the athlete keeps their eyes on the run — no headset to interrupt them, no app to check. The first self-contained holographic computer designed for sport.
An array of cameras, time-of-flight modules, and IMUs reads the body and the space it moves through. Hermes can see, map, and understand the surface, the depth, and the motion well enough to anchor virtual overlays where they need to be — not where the headset happens to be pointing.
A 35° rear-projection film accepts only the rays it should and ignores the rest, delivering a particularly bright, particularly clear image — even in daylight. Pace, heart rate, route, opponent telemetry: rendered into the field of view without ever pulling the athlete out of the moment.
Triangular touch zones at the temples, snap-fit nose pads sized per face, a rhomboid soft-rubber strip that lets sweat through, and contactless charging from above. Every surface that meets skin is matte, easy to clean, and engineered to disappear in use.
