AI basketball trainer adds precision smarts & vision to up your game
For decades, basketball training technology has relied on repetition and pre-set programming modes.
The standard machine simulates a game by shooting balls at varying angles. Those shots are often not random but a reaction to the player's movements. As a result, the player ends up learning how to shoot, but not to how to play.
As well, the machine's limited computer vision can’t address environmental situations like differing degrees of lighting conditions in outdoor courts, or varied ceiling heights in indoor gyms.
Raw performance data gathering via wearables and video playback is also done after the training session ends, but Lumistar's Carry – with combined real-time AI coaching and computer vision shot-tracking – is able to react intuitively to player performance and modify difficulty, tempo and training shot-by-shot, thus enacting real-life game scenarios.
Designed with portability in mind for the single user, the Carry weighs 77 lb (35 kg) with...
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