![]() Which is why I suspect something decent can be made and just hasn’t because the effort/reward ratio is quite uncertain for the app author. If you’re trying to make a living writing apps, the kiteboarding community isn’t a very big audience, there’s more money to be made writing apps for other hobbies, even. I’ll follow the progress of the app you’ve linked to closely. It’s not in their best interest to sell only software, with all the added challenges that would come from trying to support many different Android devices with different hardware, for example. There’s more money to be made for Woo by convincing kite boarders that they need a special expensive device to do this, even if it packs exactly the same kind of sensors that they’re already carrying in their pockets or on their wrists, than by selling a smart watch app, imho. Until anyone has attempted to do this with smart watches it’s hard to know whether it’s possible or not. Woo’s core business is turning that sensor data into a jump height reading. The Kite Android App is available for free of charge to all its online customers. Zerodha customer can trade in equity, derivatives, currency derivatives and commodity through this Zerodha mobile trading app. ![]() The app allows its online customers to trade on-the-go using a smartphone. The likelihood they they’re both using similarly capable accelerometers and gyroscopes is significant, because there probably aren’t a ton of different companies manufacturing those sensors. The Android App is very intuitive, powerful and fast. Woo as a company certainly doesn’t manufacture their own sensors from scratch. It helps with orientation as a complement to the gyroscope, that’s all. The earth’s magnetic field doesn’t vary between the ground and 20 meters high. The added magnetometer won’t help with detecting jump height. However, as I wrote in another comment, there seems to be that someone is giving it a shot. The developer has to be really smart -or good at hacking- to figure this out. Woo has an entire RD team to make that happen. There's a lot of math and physics involved. It's really difficult to measure your height in such a short time frame. :pĪnyway, I don't think it's just as simple as "nobody took the time to write a proper app". However, it's great that i can jump a lot higher than with me previous woo's. I couldn't really find if the Woo is really accurate. Dave, from WeTestKites did some statistics testing with different versions of the woo on the same board and the results are varying. The difference between the older and newer versions is quite big. The woo 3.0 is using a 9-axis inertial motion sensor (accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer). The earlier versions of the Woo are using an accelerometer and gyroscope to measure heights.
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