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A returning visit to the Santasport OTC-building

Jan 30, 2025 | Blog

The Work package 1 (Sports Games) activities have officially started, and after a break of many years, FrostBit’s tech-team visited the Sports Lab and Testing & Training facilities at the sports institute. We tested and examined the equipment that will be worked on. First, we will start with the development of the Testing & Training environment.

 

 

Currently, the Rodby motion platform in the Testing & Training environment is mainly used for skiing training. The space has cameras that capture the athlete’s movement. In addition, a variety of sensor data can be utilized during use, such as from a heart rate monitor.

We are starting to develop a sports game suitable for the environment, which can be used to expand the purpose of use to new sports; for example to gamify them! Ideas have already taken flight, and the implementation format will be decided during a definition workshop in February.

 

Experts from Lapland University of Applied Sciences and Santasport have been developing a gamified running application for the large Rodby treadmill for the sports institute’s training and testing facilities during 2025. The running game is entering its final stages, and several demo events and testing days have already been held in this late autumn, where feedback has been collected for the future development of the game.

The project has been active in diverse collaboration throughout the year. A lot of time has been spent on technical testing and development – and it has been part of the learning process, from which we have been able to benefit together with different teams. It is great to witness effective cooperation between different fields, and that is also one of the major goals of the project: to combine the expertise of technology, sports and exercise, as well as virtual reality and service design in the region. In this way, we will grow our own expertise and be able to spread it more widely.

We are looking forward to what 2026 will bring, because there is a strong development spirit within the project! Great demos are expected, and we hope that SMEs and other actors in the region will also be able to test and utilize the environments and their technological possibilities more widely in the coming years.

Follow the project results page in the future for updates.

 

Company or other actor in the region – join us for innovation and development in 2026!

We are looking for local companies to help develop environments and demos. If you are interested in sports or wellness technologies or XR technologies, please contact the project manager ella.bjorn@lapinamk.fi