Exergaming Scandinavians
The Scandinavians produce some fantastic Exergaming products and services…check out these two I found recently: Virtuagym (still in Beta) http://www.virtuagym.com/about.php and their video at http://www.vimeo.com/3455005 and Positive Gaming at...
read moreEyespy with my Exergamer's eye
The Eyetoy has been a favourite and a workhorse of our companies stratergies. It has a wealth of software available and fits well with our modular and portable service delivery. However, it can be finnicky or just a bloody nuisance to set up. Varying environments, creating varying result on the Eyetoy accuracy. I guess it has bad days just like the rest of us mere mortals. I’ve been fortunate in the past of being able to create highly effective testing areas. This has allowed me to experiment at will with various exergaming models and programs across multiple hardware...
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Our startup company, Exergaming Finland, like many commercial and semi-commercial enterprises, relies heavily on investment, research and resources. Our single largest resource is our own Exergaming service. We are a fitness service provider, first and foremost, equipment utilization runs a distant second. I chose this format as I wanted the service to be delivered onsite, to the customer/s, rapidly and unobtrusively (and removed just as expediently). This pretty much dictated my choice of equipment from the outset. Creating customer programs from that point on became very clear, and our...
read moreNokia and Mobile Exergaming
This article caught my attention as ‘Mobile Exergaming’ is a fundamental strategy of our company Exergaming Finland. ‘Mobile’ in Finland means something quite different to how we use the term in Australia. In Finland it represents ‘mobile phones’, in Australia its twofold with both phones and portability, mainly the later. Follow the article: Mobile exergaming to get an idea of what is being toyed with in the mobile phone platforms. Another bent on mobile exergaming, again by those natty Finns, is Exergaming for Tourists A novel way to sight see around...
read moreRemember handmade homepages?
I just joined an Exergaming group at twitfitter which oddly enough, reminded me of the times when I lovingly handcrafted my first html homepage. Actually it was a semi-commercial website called the Cool Republic. An overclockers, water cooling haven for the hands on geek of 1998. Since then I’ve MS frontpaged, Dreamweaved, got someone else to do it, Joomla’d, WordPressed and now Ning’d. Each has made me realise how impetuous I’ve become to ‘get my hot copy released’. I used to think writing and setting up a blog, and a blogsite was too speedy and ill...
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