Connexa Sports Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXA), the owner of both
Slinger Bag and Gameface brands, announces the beta launch of the
Slinger Bag analytics app for tennis - powered by Gameface
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – simultaneously available for iOS and
Android users.
The Slinger App, powered by Gameface, provides
an AI sports platform already proven with success in Australian
cricket. Slinger’s AI analytics app will provide tennis players and
coaches with invaluable insights into the intricacies of their game
by extracting and analyzing data from uploaded player or match
videos, filmed with a single smart phone or compatible camera.
The Slinger App is currently in beta testing and
will eventually be offered on a subscription basis, as part of
Slinger’s Sport-as-a-Service vision. The Slinger Bag brand and its
innovative ball launcher is already widely known and trusted by
millions of tennis players across the globe.
Join our beta test program and be among
the first to experience cutting edge AI features at:
https://slingerbag.com/pages/slinger-app
The key attribute of the Slinger App is its
patent-pending AI algorithm, created to recognize and analyze core
fundamentals in different playing styles and techniques used in
today’s modern game. Over the past year, significant testing across
all varieties of playing styles, along with input from key tennis
coaching minds, identified four universal pillars that comprise
common traits on which all players’ games are built, irrespective
of style or technique.
These four universal pillars are: Hitting
Stability Foundation, Shoulder and Swing
Rotation, Weight Transfer Drift
and Consistent ball Contact point.
The Slinger App utilizes video-based AI to
analyze, measure and report metrics for each critical pillar and
provides the player with insights and self-coaching tips in a very
simple, yet effective, way. It has been designed to be used both as
a stand-alone app or in conjunction with a player using their
Slinger Bag Launcher.
Slinger Bag’s vision is to provide each player
with regular, meaningful, interesting and actionable insights to
improve their game and therefore allow users to derive maximum
satisfaction and enjoyment from their time on court. Like any
available fitness app, the Slinger App is designed to encourage you
to use it regularly to monitor your self-improvement progress.
“We envision our artificial intelligence
platform will power the Connexa portfolio of brands and generate
significant consumer engagement. The AI platform will drive
real-time data and analytics for each of Connexa’s core sport
verticals – racquetsports, baseball and cricket. Our leadership in
these verticals will be supplemented by licensed strategic
partnerships across non-core team sports” commented Mike Ballardie
CEO Connexa Sports Technologies.
Ballardie added “Following completion of the
Slinger App for tennis the Gameface team will then replicate the
Slinger App’s AI analytics platform for both pickleball and padel
tennis users and will commence development and testing to support
the Slinger Bag Baseball introduction, planned for the second half
of 2024. Alongside these developments we plan to commence the
process of identifying strategic licensing partners for
high-profile, non-core team sports verticals such as basketball,
soccer and lacrosse, with the clear objective to become a
recognized leader in Sports AI globally”.
Following the launch of the completed Slinger
App – that will eventually available on both the Apple App Store
and Google Play Store - each new Slinger Bag user will be required
to download the Slinger App in order to view the Slinger Bag
Launcher user guide, as well as to access several hundred highly
recommended practice and drill videos. This will contribute to
significantly increasing the download potential for the Slinger App
- well above the already 500,000 strong database of active tennis
players held by Connexa.
Jalal Shaik, Managing Director of
Australian-based Gameface, said “Gameface initially focused its
technology in the cricket vertical, where we built an automated
platform to extract various data points from live and archived
match footage. The team since has been dedicated to identifying and
building performance markers to help tennis players track and
improve their game objectively. Following the launch of the Slinger
App for tennis, Gameface plans to revisit the cricket vertical to
enhance its technology offering, based on the advances made with
the tennis AI and aimed at broadening and deepening its reach
across the cricket world.
Ballardie concluded saying "The increasing power
of mobile devices, combined with the accessibility of affordable
cloud computing, has fueled the rapid integration of AI into the
sports industry. AI, complemented by existing technologies such as
Big Data, IoT, and GPS, is reshaping how we monitor athletes and
teams. This AI-driven transformation is providing real-time
insights to players, coaches, and managers and through Gameface our
AI analytics allows us to quantify data outcomes alongside the
kinematic profile of the player.”
In 2022 the global Sports AI market size was
recognized as being USD 2.1 Billion and is expected to grow at a
CAGR of 30.10% from 2023-20301 - providing significant growth in
both users and expected recurring revenues.
Please visit
https://slingerbag.com/pages/slinger-app
to view a video highlighting the key attributes of the
Slinger Bag App.
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More detailed information on Connexa Sports
Technologies and Slinger Bag can be found at
www.connexasports.com
About Connexa Sports
Technologies:
Connexa Sports a leading connected sports
company delivering products, technologies, and Sport-as-a-Service
across a range of sport verticals. Connexa’s mission is to reinvent
sports through technological innovation driven by an unwavering
focus on today’s sports consumer.
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