Health Expertise Firm FORM Launches Subsequent Technology Good Swim Goggles, Accelerating Augmented Actuality Adoption in Endurance Sport


FORM Good Swim 2 options built-in coronary heart fee and progressive SwimStraight™ digital compass for open water navigation, obtainable now worldwide

Vancouver, BC, April 2, 2024FORM, the industry-leading health expertise firm pioneering real-time visible suggestions to raise athletic efficiency, is happy to announce the launch of its extremely anticipated second-generation augmented actuality swim goggles, FORM Good Swim 2, obtainable to buy now worldwide.

Because the creator and dominant participant within the sensible swim goggles area, FORM has constantly delivered cutting-edge options that cater to each triathletes and swimmers of all talents.

Constructing on the award-winning success of the Good Swim 1, FORM Good Swim 2 leverages patented Waveguide optics expertise and an array of onboard sensors to ship real-time metrics, guided exercises, and unparalleled real-time swim teaching.

The joy surrounding the FORM Good Swim 2 stems from its progressive new options:

  • Built-in Coronary heart Charge Monitoring: A groundbreaking temple-based built-in coronary heart fee sensor supplies a dependable and correct approach to monitor coronary heart fee within the water, making real-time coronary heart rate-based zone coaching accessible to all swimmers.
  • SwimStraight™: Incorporating a first-of-its-kind digital compass, SwimStraight enhances open-water swim confidence by enabling swimmers to observe in-goggle directional heading. This reduces course deviations and improves total swim effectivity.

FORM Good Swim 2 goggles, and all included options, have been granted race approval by World Triathlon, USA Triathlon, the Skilled Triathletes Organisation (PTO), and supertri.

Over the previous 4 years, the FORM workforce has refined its industrial design strategy, making use of intensive learnings and hydrodynamic analysis to additional optimize efficiency. Good Swim 2 boasts the next refreshed design options:

  • 15% Measurement Discount: The Good Swim 2 goggles’ tech pack—containing the accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and barometer—is now 15% smaller, by quantity, than its predecessor, delivering a sleeker, extra hydrodynamic design.
  • Enhanced Match & Consolation: With consolation being crucial, new proprietary eye seals now match the contours of a greater variety of facial constructions. Prolonged temples present a brand new connection level for the goggles’ strap for enhanced stabilization, whereas the inclusion of 5 arched nostril bridges ensures a extra comfy, safe, optimum match.

FORM has additionally rolled out updates to its HeadCoach™ digital teaching expertise. First unveiled in October 2023, HeadCoach offers swimmers real-time in-goggle entry to method consciousness, targeted ability improvement (HeadCoach Expertise), and in-app schooling and evaluation.

The newest HeadCoach replace, utilizing the goggles’ onboard sensors, consistently evaluates efficiency and method knowledge to find out areas of enchancment. HeadCoach’s machine-learning algorithms will robotically generate quite a lot of personalised exercises designed to make you a greater swimmer. Moreover, HeadCoach Expertise prompts will now seem robotically in Free Swim mode and could be manually constructed into customized exercises enhancing coaching affect and ability acquisition.

“Unveiling our second-generation product builds upon our legacy of delivering the perfect, most cutting-edge options for swimmers of all talents”, mentioned Dan Eisenhardt, CEO at FORM. “We imagine passionately in empowering athletes by real-time suggestions by way of augmented actuality, and this subsequent era of our sensible swim goggles exemplifies our relentless pursuit of excellence in design and efficiency.”

Eisenhardt continued, “Good Swim 2’s built-in coronary heart fee sensor eliminates the inconvenience of buying, attaching, and pairing a separate system and shows correct steady real-time coronary heart fee for optimum coaching and racing.” For open water swimmers, “SwimStraight is actually transformative, notably for triathletes, providing an clever information to maintain your swim path straight and true, saving vitality, time and bettering focus,” Eisenhardt commented.

“In an Olympic yr, and as a data-driven athlete, I will need to have entry to the perfect expertise obtainable to me. The FORM Good Swim 2 offers me that expertise and insights that allow me to coach and carry out at my finest”, mentioned Kristian Blummenfelt, defending Olympic and World Champion triathlete.

FORM Good Swim 2 is now obtainable for buy for $249.00/£229.00/€249.00 from www.formswim.com and at particular multi-sport retailers.

All purchases embody a free two-month trial of FORM Premium, which incorporates entry to exercises, coaching plans, HeadCoach™, TrainingPeaks exercise imports and SwimStraight™. After trial expiry, continued entry to Premium Options prices $15/£13/€15 a month or $99/£84/€99 yearly.

About FORM
Based in 2016 in Vancouver, Canada, FORM is an award-winning health expertise firm pioneering real-time visible suggestions to raise athletic efficiency. First launched in 2019, FORM’s Good Swim Goggles give swimmers an immersive swim expertise by combining motivating exercises with real-time swim metrics, method consciousness and targeted ability improvement by way of the progressive in-goggles augmented actuality show. FORM’s founder and CEO, Dan Eisenhardt, swam competitively for 14 years earlier than beginning his profession as a sports activities expertise entrepreneur and bought his earlier sports activities expertise firm to Intel.

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