#Playr catapult professional#

#Playr catapult professional#

PLAYR has handpicked the best professional football coaches and sports scientists to provide individually tailored advice on preparation, performance and recovery the pillars for success at professional clubs. Providing unique performance insight, the SmartCoach system is a world’s first. Handpicked Wearable by the Best Coaches and Scientists Designed for ease of use, with simple, intuitive UI, it also allows the user to compete against friends and peers, and benchmark themselves against professional players. The PLAYR app allows an athlete to track their performance and offers a smart coach to improve the user’s game. The pocket is padded to prevent any impact injury, and the pod is inserted into this pocket from outside the garment for ease of access to the pod. The integrated pocket for the pod is located at the base of the neck – a position chosen due to minimum impact in competitive team sports. The PLAYR garment is a high-performance vest, created using advanced high-performance textiles. “The PLAYR garment is a high-performance vest, created using advanced high-performance textiles.”

The pod communicates with GPS networks and the PLAYR app to track the athlete during training or a game, including distance covered, sprint distance, Pitch heat map, and player load.

The pod is inserted into the garment, which is worn underneath or over a football jersey, and sits at the top of the athlete’s back. The smart pod | Photo credit: LAYER LAYER x Catapult Launch Wearable DeviceĪ perfect device for an audience of amateur football players, PLAYR is comprised of a smart pod, high-performance vest, and an app. Designed and developed over a period of 18 months, the LAYER partnered up with leading sports analytics brand Catapult, the company responsible for the wearable and analytic tech behind the success of some of the world’s most elite sporting teams.

Coinciding with the World Cup, Benjamin Hubert of experience design agency LAYER has designed PLAYR, a smart wearable that enables athletes to track performance, improve their game, and compete against other players.