The world's first complete swing and footwork analyzer for golf using four sensors for 4x accuracy.
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Shipping Update
PGA Show 2017
In January, the Coach Labs team attended the 2017 PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, FL. Curt Menefee joined us at the booth each day talking to customers, partners and the media.
The Easiest and Most Effective Golf Drills to Enhance Your Performance
At DuoTrac we believe that perfect practice makes perfect. Our inhouse PGA Director of Instructor is here to help you do just that. This quick and easy drill targets hip sway and club face angle. Knowing whether your hip sway is "away" from or "towards" target will help you create a powerful and repeatable swing.
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The DuoTrac Team
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Hey Backers,
There’s an exceptional amount of human effort that goes into making a disruptive product that changes the course of technology. Developing and constantly testing our theories is an art form and modern day miracle. We hope that our updates on the process convey this.
Last update we mentioned that the DuoTrac sensors we received and deployed had some unacceptable radio frequencies competing with other Bluetooth signals affecting the sensors. As a result, we underwent a grueling rapid modification of the sensor hardware – extending the antenna range to increase the signal strength. Getting the DuoTrac sensors’ connectivity to our target levels has been one of the biggest technical challenges we’ve faced. This modification process takes about 3-4 weeks each time. See the results of this initial antenna modification.
This is not easy or cheap, but as you’ve guessed by now, we chose quality over speed. The good news, after all that work, is that we will have sensors that won’t encounter competing radio frequencies and have a significantly more stable connectivity.
As our hardware is being modified, our firmware engineers in India have made some significant breakthroughs! As you all may know, Jason, our CEO, personally flew overseas to India to oversee the final testing and code development of the product. We felt as if our sensor readings were accurate, however, our latest firmware advancement utilizing quaternion and sensor fusion makes DuoTrac the absolute standard for instructional technology.
Our sensors have three vital components: gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer. Each sensor has its own set of strengths and weaknesses. Gyroscopes have no idea where they are in relation to the world, while accelerometers are very noisy and can never provide a yaw estimate. So what that leaves us with is a gyroscope that responds quickly, but drifts over time and an accelerometer that responds slowly, but becomes more accurate over time. The idea behind sensor fusion is to take readings from each sensor and provide a more useful result by combining the strengths of each component. As a result, the additional data points we’ll receive are gravity, linear acceleration, orientation, rotation vector, and quaternion.
Quaternion is the most accurate and efficient representation of rotation and motion, making DuoTrac highly useful in gaming and simulators. While Trackman and Foresight have been the market’s basic standard of simulators and training, with sensor fusion and quaternion, DuoTrac has become the next evolution of simulators, but now portable, more reliable, and cost-effective.
We’ve started the process of combining gamification and game improvement of DuoTrac through our portable sensor simulator technology where you can compete with golfers around the world. More on this in our next update.
Around this crazy schedule, we’ve officially launched our DuoTrac Golf app on iOS and Android! If you haven’t done so already, go to the Apple Store or Google PlayStore, download the app, and get a sneak peak of how the app works by simulating golf swings and receiving how to fix tips, no sensors necessary! Enjoy the seamless and delightful experience and let us know what your thoughts on the app are.
We’re excited about how revolutionizing DuoTrac is becoming with each new iteration, bump, and bruise we encounter along the way and we know you are, too. Do not hesitate to email us if you have any questions about the technology, but please keep in mind that our schedule update is a roadmap and we’ll be releasing more info over time regarding shipment fulfillment. Please try to minimize requests for ship dates as we will reach out to you as soon as we’re ready. All backers and pre-sale customers will receive a One Month Free Subscription to our upcoming game. We can never say it enough: thank you for being such an amazing community of golfers, sports and tech enthusiasts!
- DuoTrac Team
Hey Backers,
You’ve all been patiently waiting for the DuoTrac golf app to launch and the day has finally arrived!
We’re extremely proud to announce that the DuoTrac golf app is now live for iOS on the Apple App Store. Android has taken us a bit longer as we’ve added some additional How To Fix tips and drills, but we’re expecting it to also go live very soon. The app features a free demo (test drive without sensors), swing correction tips & drills, goal settings, customizable training notifications, and more! We’ve made it easier than ever for you to track your performance and establish your strong and weak points.
The DuoTrac app is a centralized improvement-driven location with actively curated tips and fixes that bring you the best solutions and ways to lower your handicap with actionable insights with each and every swing.
Download the new DuoTrac app for iOS today! We’re still working on additional weekly feature releases for the app, so stay tuned – it’s coming very, very soon! When you get your DuoTrac golf 4D kits, be sure to download the latest DuoTrac app release. We’ll be uploading new versions regularly.
Hardware
After testing the batch of DuoTrac kits we received and deployed, we noticed that there were many radio frequencies competing through the Bluetooth in multiple environment settings affecting the sensors. We’re modifying the sensor hardware to extend the antenna range to increase the signal strength. However, the supplier promises delivery of more updated DuoTrac kits in a few days. We are trying to minimize the wait as much as possible. We have equipped our departments with more staff members and within the next few days we shall resume dispatching deliveries.
In the meantime, simulate swings without sensors in the Free Demo section of the LIVE iOS DuoTrac Golf app and let us know how you enjoy the Free Demo, How to Fix, and Drills portion of the app if you haven’t received your sensors. Let us know what you’d like to see next!
Also, check out the DuoTrac Getting Started video!
Team DuoTrac