ActiveLook’s HUD Tech Now Appropriate with CrewNerd App

June 7, 2024 – ActiveLook, creators of an progressive micro-projection system that discretely integrates into eyewear, has not too long ago introduced that CrewNerd, an on-the-water app for rowers and paddlers, is enabling compatibility with ActiveLook’s “Mild AR” expertise.

ActiveLook, which was created by MicroOLED—a producer of natural LED show applied sciences and micro-optics based mostly in Grenoble, France—affords heads-up show (HUD) expertise for linked eyewear that mixes low weight, low power consumption and a really lengthy battery life.

Based on the corporate, the mixing with CrewNerd will enable for a extra interactive and secure expertise for rowers, enabling them to entry real-time knowledge of their discipline of view with out interrupting their focus or efficiency. The corporate additionally acknowledged that the mixing will make CrewNerd the primary rowing or paddling app to offer real-time efficiency metrics to athletes.

Key metrics resembling pace, distance, stroke charge, and coronary heart charge will probably be projected straight onto the glasses’ lenses within the person’s discipline of view. When pairing ActiveLook glasses with an iPhone, Apple Watch or Android Smartphone, metrics are proven straight within the person’s discipline of view, permitting rowers to look straight in entrance as an alternative of wanting down at a display screen for efficiency metrics. 

The corporate famous that at present, Apple Watch customers who make the most of CrewNerd in “watch solely” mode face the problem of taking a look at their wrist whereas rowing or paddling to examine their tempo or stroke charge. With ActiveLook, they’ll as an alternative see all of their vital knowledge with out sacrificing good posture or disrupting their circulate.

Moreover, rowers and coxswains alike will have the ability to learn metrics and efficiency knowledge with better ease on ActiveLook suitable glasses, which have a number of brightness modes, as an alternative of on a cell phone display screen, which can be more durable to learn in daylight or when moist.

“This new partnership with CrewNerd permits us to offer heads-up show options to rowers that we haven’t but touched. This may improve their expertise as rower or coxswain offering athletes to maximise their potential,” stated Eric Marcellin-Dibon, CEO of MICROOLED.‍

ActiveLook acknowledged that the compatibility will in the end assist to create extra immersive and productive coaching experiences for customers, and also will assist to boost security by permitting rowers to maintain their eyes on their environment, while nonetheless in a position to entry real-time efficiency suggestions. Coxswains too will profit, as they are going to have the ability to look in any path throughout a race while nonetheless in a position to see vital details about their crew’s efficiency or progress.

Tony Andrews, founding father of CrewNerd, commented, “We first launched CrewNerd 15 years in the past. Since then we’ve continued to innovate and push the boundaries of how rowers and paddlers work together with their efficiency knowledge and metrics. By partnering with ActiveLook Mild AR expertise, we’re additional enhancing the expertise of rowers, coxswains, and paddlers.”

For extra info on MicroOLED and its ActiveLook expertise for linked eyewear, please go to the corporate’s website.

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