There are no shortage of fitness wearables on the market, but many of them do roughly the same thing in different packaging: Sleep tracking, motion detecting, heart rate measuring and the like. FocusMotion wants to be the “Siri for understanding human movement,” by offering an SDK that turns any wearable into a fitness trainer. The SDK works with any OS, and uses a fitness wearable’s gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer and Electromyography to understand the wearer’s movements and pace, allowing developers to program apps around human movements – no matter how obscure. In a demo with FocusMotion’s co-founder Cavan Canavan, he showed me…
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