GoPro, purveyors of excellent action cameras, intends to release the perfect companion to its extreme sports hardware — a helmet. But not just any helmet, though if you’re strapping a Hero 12 Black to your chest you probably should wear one of those too.
The company will, according to GoPro’s Christopher Clark, be launching a “tech-enable[d]” helmet as soon as 2025. It won’t stop there, either. It intends to give other companies similar technological skills when the time is right.
GoPro showing Forcite
The action cam company is in the middle of acquiring Forcite, an Australian motorcycle helmet company. The trick here, obviously, is that Forcite’s helmets are smarter than the average brain bucket. It’s this tech that GoPro is after and it’s easy to see why. Advanced lightweight materials and an improved design for safety are just the start. The MK1S helmet comes standard with Harmon Kardon speakers, a visor-based heads-up display, integrated cameras for recording rides, and externally mounted physical controls designed to be used with gloves on.
It’s this sort of tech that GoPro CEO Nicholas Woodman is talking about when he said that the company intends “…work towards enhancing the performance and safety of various types of helmets, starting with motorcycle helmets.” The work on the latter is already done, though we’d expect to see GoPro’s camera tech making an appearance in the hardware. Likely, other helmets — for cycling, skateboarding, or any other sport that involves possibly landing on your head — will be issued forth from the company sometime after 2025.
