Atomic Bands – Smart Bluetooth Body Motion Fitness Gaming?

The advent of virtuality gaming has created a paradigm shift in the way we view virtual environments visually, and, in turn, necessitates a similar paradigm shift in the way we control games. The fusion of the real world and the virtual world, through augmented reality, has given birth to a new breed of tools that can be used to interact with the new digital frontier.

New developments in microcontrollers, accelerometer, and six-axis 3D directional sensors have created a new wave of wearable tech that can be used to translate organic, fluid, real-world movements into in-game controls and actions. These same wearable controllers are even beginning to create innovative and unique game niches by themselves without the need for bulky desktop computers or gaming consoles.

A new Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign is offering tech-savvy crowdfunders to support the world’s first gesture-based gameplay wearables. Called the Atomic Bands, this innovative new breed of gaming peripheral doesn’t need any IR or laser cameras or gaming consoles to work. Having captured attention from tech media juggernauts such as Cnet, 2 One 5 and CNN, the Atomic Bands were chosen as one of the top new gadgets of CES 2017 and are now almost halfway toward their crowdfunding goal of $20,000 USD.

In this article, we’ll take a look at the design, features, functionality, and abilities of the Atomic Bands to determine whether they live up to the hype and help you find out whether they’re a tech project worth backing.

What are the Atomic Bands?

The Atomic Bands are a new solution for bluetooth enabled body motion gaming. The unique design of the Atomic Bands provide gamers with the ability to perform smart bluetooth motion tracking that can be utilized for either single player or multiplayer gaming. The major draw of the Atomic Bands, however, is that in addition to being able to be used to interact with both virtual and augmented reality environments, they can be used as a standalone action trainer to teach users real life skills.

The features offered by the Atomic Bands are extensive and cutting-edge. Incorporating gesture recognition, haptic feedback that can deliver advanced rhythm training, and wireless tracking abilities. The Atomic Bands offer users the ability to play augmented reality games and even participate in fitness training programs that are designed to gamify the training process, making fitness fun and interactive.

The Atomic Band wearables are intended to be worn on the wrists or ankles and have been designed to emulate the full body skeletal tracking that is used in the professional motion capture software rigs used in Hollywood. Both of the Atomic Bands incorporate an OLED screen that can be used to present game information, or run custom game apps for performing training games.

The applications of the Atomic Bands are varied and dynamic. The Atomic Bands can be used to create virtual sculptures in augmented or virtual reality world spaces, program in and learn dance moves, or use gesture control to control custom operating systems or games with real-time motion tracking and advanced, adaptable pattern recognition.

The Atomic Bands have been described as the “Duolingo of dance and martial arts”, able to track the movements of a user and compare them to a vast library of preprogrammed movement patterns, teaching everything from fitness routines, to dance styles, to tai chi.

Atomic Bands Features & Abilities

The Atomic Bands incorporate a broad range of technological innovations that make it one of the most comprehensive 3D motion tracking controllers available on the market. A built in gyroscope and accelerometer feed tracking information back to a paired smartphone or smart device, combining it with information drawn from a 9-axis motion sensor.

The Atomic Bands are able to recognize and track a huge library of gestures, as well as analyze fitness and training from to deliver actionable training information. LED lights and a large OLED screen deliver real-time feedback, while onboard audio and haptic feedback update users on actions and movements.

The Atomic Bands are able to connect to a paired device with both NFC and Bluetooth, and offer long range syncing that can’t be found in most wearable controller tech. In addition to the rich feature set of the Atomic Bands, they offer a superhero-inspired design profile.

The Atomic Bands also ship with a huge amount of games that come free with the unit itself. From day 1 of shipment, Atomic Band users will be provided with games such as Ka-Pow, a boxing game, a House of Dance educational dancing game, Sonic Utopia, a gesture-based music creation game, and Monkey Kung Fu, a martial arts inspired climbing game.

The creative team behind the Atomic Bands are a group of gaming industry veterans and software engineers that have combined forces to create a unique new product that allows for unrestricted freedom in gaming control.

The Verdict: Atomic Bands Review

The Atomic Bands are certainly packed full of cutting edge technology, making a new method of game control and kinesthetic learning methods available to gamers around the world. Expected to ship in November 2017, the Atomic bands are a IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign that is definitely worth backing. Learn more here: AtomicBands.com