Professionals and students from sports, technology, service design and many other backgrounds gathered for our project workshop on February 20 to test and brainstorm ideas for sports technology. The event began with the Testing & Training environment, where people got familiar with the Rodby exercise platform and other sports equipment in the facility, such as shooting practice.
From the Testing & Training environment, we moved to the Sports Lab, where we got to know the Vicon mocap cameras, as well as the MOTEK environment and the balancing and observation games MOTEK offers.
After the presentations and testing of the facilities, we moved to coffee, presenting the project’s activities and brainstorming sports/exercise games and other development ideas for the facilities at Santasport. The motion platforms, cameras, and virtual environments inspired a variety of game ideas: for example, ice hockey, cycling routes, parkour, downhill skiing, skateboarding, controlling underwater drones, and much more.
In addition, the facilities showed potential for a variety of developments, which would be needed, for example, for athletes to perform more independently with the equipment. Next, FrostBit’s technical team will start working on the first part of work package 1 together with sports experts, and some kind of sports game will start developing in the Testing & Training environment!
Stay tuned for current events in the project, as the university will soon also organize the first XR Lab event related to the project.