Our app aspires to be the Strava for basketball, providing a unified platform for the global basketball community. With a strong emphasis on community, gamification, and cutting-edge technology, our app aims to empower basketball players of all skill levels to connect, train, and challenge themselves in unprecedented ways.
Basketball Player’s Flywheel:
The flywheel of any basketball players begins with watching basketball and being inspired to start training. As we start training, we aim to play better and more. With continuous training, we strive to compete and win, ultimately becoming better players.
The Big Vision (2-4 years):
Our product combines community, gamification, and technology. We are developing the smartest AI coach for basketball training by leveraging the latest technologies. This will enable everyone, everywhere, to access quality basketball training all year long, at the cost of a single personal session with a human coach.
How it works:
We are developing an intelligent basketball coach powered by several technologies:
- Computer vision (NewStream.ai SDK**):**
We’re using biomechanics analysis from a smartphone camera to verify the training process accuracy
- Data from wearable devices (tryrook.io SDK**):**
This is an additional data layer, that will enrich our smart coach with more valuable data
- AR glasses (Nreal Air AR Glasses or similar):
Video instruction will be just in front of the player, no need to go back to the phone to look at how to perform the drill.
- GPT-4:
LLM helps to deliver the personalized experience of communication with a virtual coach.
- Text-2-Speech (integrated into every mobile OS):
Virtual coach recommendations will be spoken aloud and displayed visually (for AR glasses) using a text-to-speech engine (and later with a text-to-video engine).
Biomechanics Analysts:
Mobile SDK by newstream.ai ~200MB, works on the client (using phone CPU/GPU).
https://youtu.be/QkSbYk_Cvvo
- by yourself with an AI-coach (using phone’s camera and wearables)
- with a human coach online 1-1 (text/video chat)
- with a human coach offline in a group
- find & play pick-up games nearby
- find & play in a local league
- match players with your game level
- daily NBA and other leagues’ news
- daily UGC: video posts and streamings by users
- play integrated casual mobile games
- participate in challenges (using camera + AI)
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