SPECTO BOWLING: NEW CHALLENGE!
Angular Velocity and their bowling partner company Kegel introduced a new challenge for their mobile app: Wheel of Targets. The new challenge has three difficulty levels and eight random targets. Bowlers spin the wheel for their next target and have three chances to hit their target. If they hit on their first shot they got 3 points, second shot 2 points and 3rd shot 1 point. Best result is 24 points and bowlers can get a 24 Club trophy if they make 24 in No Way difficulty level.
This is the third challenge Angular Velocity and Kegel released for bowlers after Master of Corner Pins and Speed Ladder. The app also have Specto Worlds - a gamified practice game and Specto Performance for hard core practice and performance evaluation.
New patents to Angular Velocity
Angular Velocity’s IPR portfolio has been updated remarkably during this autumn with two new patents and SPECTO Athletics® trademark registration also to USA. Kristian Törnqvist, Director of R&D for Angular Velocity is happy for the strengthening of company’s patent portfolio. The newest patents (4 & 5) are related to sensor calibration and alignment systems.
“We are happy to receive these patent awards. They make our patent portfolio stronger. The idea of these patents is to make calibrating and aligning our sensors in the field easier and quicker”, says Törnqvist.
Good news is also that now SPECTO Athletics® is a registered trademark also in USA, which is important step for the globalization of SPECTO Athletics® performance tracking plans.
SPECTO Athletics® measures Long Jump and Triple Jump in Kalevan Kisat
Paavo Nurmi Stadium and SPECTO Athletics are ready for Finnish National Championships.
The Finnish top-athletes are competing from Thursday 13th Aug to Sunday 16th Aug in national championships of athletics, called Kalevan Kisat. At Paavo Nurmi Stadium in Turku we’ll see top level athletes and results and among them high-tech performance tracking. Angular Velocity, a Finnish sports technology company is measuring the speeds, angles and distances of the performances with LIDAR-based technology.
In Kalevan Kisat SPECTO Athletics® -system tracks athletes in long jump and triple jump. The performance data of these disciplines can be seen also in Yle’s live broadcasting from Paavo Nurmi Stadium.
The future of SPECTO Athletics® involves also much more than laser beams on the track. Kristian Törnqvist, the director of R&D of Angular Velocity, sees that the result of the concentrated development of AV Team will change the spectator’s experience in the future.
"SPECTO Athletics® brings the phases of an athlete’s performance to the spectator’s full view in a modern way so that they can see what they can’t otherwise see and get new insights. We are developing a mobile application as a second screen offering more performance data than tv can offer", Törnqvist tells.
The mobile application is in test phase during the autumn events. It will be published during the first half of 2021. Kristian Törnqvist is looking forward to the additional features brought by the app.
"The SPECTO data in the app is very interesting and gives so many insights of the disciplines that for me it is difficult to select my favorite. The app is much more than getting the data from athletics: it is also comparing the results and athletes, supporting them and interacting with other fans", Törnqvist describes the incoming app.
KIHU validated SPECTO Athletics® for Long Jump and Triple Jump
The Finnish Research Institute for Olympic Sports, KIHU has validated and accepted Angular Velocity’s measurements in Long Jump and Triple Jump. This means that Long Jump and Triple Jump are the first SPECTO Athletics® disciplines to get the validation from KIHU.
“This is important step to the credibility of our company and our products. As a young company we must prove more why our product is better and more trustworthy than earlier applications. That is why we use third party to verify the accuracy of our measurements and the input of our developers to create the best sports tracking system”, says Kristian Törnqvist, director of R&D of Angular Velocity.
KIHU was validating the measurements of speeds and distances in Long Jump and Triple Jump: for example, the accuracy of distance to board and speed was high. The total distance measured with fast LIDAR-based SPECTO Sports® technology was verified with high accuracy.
“After World Athletics has certified the measuring the total distance, it will be revolutionary: TV-producers get the result quickly and there is more time to analyse and compare the performance which makes it more interesting to the spectators”, Kristian Törnqvist says.
He also emphasizes that validation of measurements gives SPECTO Athletics® more respect among event organizers and athletes. That facilitates developing the new disciplines to the SPECTO Sports® product family.
SPECTO Athletics® will be on site at several competitions from August onwards gathering data and testing the system. From Motonet GP in Kuortane SPECTO Athletics® data from Long Jump will be presented also via Yle’s broadcasting to television spectators. SPECTO Athletics® will be in the field also in Motonet GP in Espoo and in Kalevan kisat in Turku.
