VertiMax V8 Platforms and Raptors are two of the leading athletic performance training equipment tools in the world, specifically designed to maximize athletic potential by focusing on three key components: speed, explosive power, and vertical jump.

Leading soccer, football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, MMA, and other top sports, athletes, coaches, and trainers from the world's best teams rely on VertiMax technology to win. Meanwhile, youth, high school, collegiate, and weekend warriors trust VertiMax Platforms and Raptors to enhance their athletic performance.

VertiMax offers a free companion training app, offering 'getting started' tutorials and a library of programming delivered by renowned trainers in sports performance and fitness.

In high performance sports labs, VertiMax will often be paired with a force plate — a platform that senses and measures force produced when someone is walking, running, or in the case of VertiMax, jumping. A force plate can offer closed-loop feedback to the vertical jump performance that’s so critical in sports from basketball to volleyball.

What if we could give the same feedback an athlete gets in a multi-million dollar sports facility, but give it to the aspiring high school athlete at home?

Well, it turns out that if you can measure vertical displacement (the height of a jump) on a Vertimax, and if you can measure how long someone was in the air for, getting force plate quality data is an exercise in remembering your high school physics.

By combining ASENSEI’s core capabilities of movement recognition with spatial tracking in ASENSEI XR software development kit for VR/AR, Vertimax can identify the ‘toe off’ moment when someone leaves the ground, tracking their vertical displacement only when the athlete is in the air. By fusing movement recognition and vertical displacement, force estimations are improved to such an extent, that the VertiMax app can now put force-plate technology into any smartphone with a camera.

For legacy equipment brands like VertiMax, with proven products backed by science, integrating the ASENSEI software development kit into their companion app experience is a powerful way of bringing their product into the connected health and fitness era.