Meta Presence Platform Hackathon

April 25-27 2023

Meet the Team

Trimikha Valentius

Diarmid Mackenzie

Thomas�Henchman

Lead developer

Developer

UX / UI Designer

Our Concept

Squat Master is a cutting-edge WebXR application designed for Meta Quest Pro to enhance the experience of doing Barbell Squats. ��

A massive �potential audience

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The global fitness industry is expected to reach $233 billion by 2025, with a growing emphasis on home-based workouts and digital fitness solutions. Squat Master is well-positioned to capitalize on massive opportunity.

Market leading mobile app ‘StongLifts’ has over 3.4+ million users

Pricing for this app is £29.99 / year

Tapping into a brand new audience

XR fitness experiences reaching existing �XR users

SquatMaster drawing new users to grow overall XR market

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Already �using VR

Already into

Sports / Fitness

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How can we use XR to support peoples existing fitness goals?��

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�Rather than trying to substitute new ones?

Non-Elite Sports �Performers

Identifying a new audience category

Amateur athletes with established performance goals

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• Not looking for “new experiences”

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• Willing to spend money to support achieving their pre-existing goals (gym membership, equipment, wearables)

Real world passions that �can be enhanced with XR

We are targeting people with

Little interest in existing �VR fitness games

NESP’s already have their own fitness goals

Current build

What we’ve produced

Try it out at: https://squatmaster.netlify.app

A seamless experience

Hands-free workout assistance

• Enables user to calibrate the experience to their height, flexibility & equipment setup
• Counts & measures depth of your reps
• Provides real-time feedback and metrics
• Relays video of workout from alternate angle (to monitor form)
• Voice assistant to provide encouragement� & alert for reps that are too shallow
• Data on bar speed, rest taken between reps

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• Passthrough
• Spatial Anchors
• Hand tracking

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WebXR Presence Platform Features Utilized

Our Process

Lean and mean

Our concept was the brainchild of our Lead developer Diarmid, who wrote up slides on the initial idea on his 3 hour train journey from Devon.��We spent the first day scoping the project, prioritising features and fully exploring all options to ensure we were making the most of the Presence platform.

Due to the speed and convenience of WebXR, we have been able to rapidly prototype and iterate to refine the user experience and include as many features as time allowed.��We have also made trips to a local gym to further stress test the experience with real equipment and actual gym goers, using these learnings to further refine.

Testimonial

Giotto - Personal Trainer

We were there for less than an hour - he came up to us and was really interested in what we were doing.

He wanted to try it out, but had back to back clients so couldn't spare the time before 3pm. He asked us to come back later this afternoon.

He mentioned that he had a client at Meta working on the headset tracking capabilities. He's been wondering when software applications that would be suitable for use in his work would start to come out.

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Additional features �for future releases

What’s next?

Programming & Tracking

Gathering data seamlessly

Mobile apps that support tracking and programming of a lifting programming are already popular paid services with Non-elite sports performance, with substantial market traction

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SquatMaster can deliver everything that these do, but with…

• seamless data collection
• no need to keep picking up your phone between sets
• vastly more valuable data tracked

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Supporting Good Form

Pose estimation to improve form

Being able to track the distance between people’s �knee’s will mean we can give visual feedback on their form and guide them away from possible injury��Google’s Mediapipe “pose tracking” can do the heavy lifting here,, and can be run on a video stream inside the browser.

Realtime Feedback

Workout data visualised in 3D

We would also add data visualisations of your squat depth, speed, time between reps, and rest time, as a real time 3D chart, spatialized in the environment around you.

Live video review in-experience

Check your form in real-time

Using an additional device to record your workout, this video feed can be shown to the user to correct their form and review any mistakes

(we have simulated this in our videos, but the full functionality was beyond what we could dliver inside this hack)

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Transform your workout

Relocate to other worlds

We will also be able to replace the physical environment around the user with any virtual world, meaning you can experience your workout with a view of the mountains, on an alien planet or deep in the jungle!

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Fully Customisable UI

Create a bespoke layout to suit your needs

We would also like to make all the UI and information fully customisable and editable to each users specific needs

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Future Feature Road Map

• Multiple user profiles, each with their own calibration�
• A desktop web app that can monitor all the data in real time�
• One-click social sharing of video + performance data, to allow social form checks, celebrating, bragging etc.

• Battery warning if user is getting low on battery to avoid headset going blind / dark