Peloton: a movement tracking unit for living room athletes

It’s not bad to train in front of the TV, but there is no one to come and tell you if your movements are correct. Peloton this week unveiled a new device that looks like Kinect, the late Xbox movement tracking box: it is a small device to put next to the station, which will study the posture of the user with his camera.

the Platoon Guide, supplied with a heart rate chest strap, will therefore monitor the movements of the lounge athlete in real time and analyze them according to the course of the service. A function that will encourage users to perform the exercises correctly and above all, to overcome them. This is reminiscent of the Smart Trainer presented by Samsung at the start of the year.

Samsung’s Smart Trainer analyzes the posture of athletes who train in front of their TV

Thanks to the information collected during the exercises, the service will be able to suggest courses to work on other muscle groups. For the more careful, the camera can be obstructed with a cover and the microphone, disabled.

The device will be available in Europe sometime next year for € 495, initially in Germany and the UK. A price to which must be added the course subscription (€ 12.99 per month). This product may be the future of Fitness + and Apple TV: the rumor has evoked a future TV box equipped with a camera. Why couldn’t she monitor movements during Fitness + exercises? After all, Apple bought PrimeSense, the company behind the Kinect.

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