Mobile eye-tracking for Sports Performance

With a now greater understanding of how the visual system influences athletic performance, eye tracking has become a point of fascination in high-performance  sport. However, the expense of implementing eye-tracking technology often  extremely high.

There are many commercially available eye-tracking systems out  there that will give sport scientists the data they need to analyze an athletes visual habits. We believe eye tracking is hugely undervalued as a real training tool and should form another piece of the puzzle in high-performance sports. 

Soma Technologies focuses on providing a mobile, affordable eye tracking solution for teams, clubs and brands, making it easy to implement an eye tracking cognitive training solution into their environment. 

Soma NPT Vision utilises existing eye tracking software in mobile devices, rather than reinventing the wheel and making new eye-tracking hardware and producing large screens. Using mobile devices is a far more practical and cost effective solution. This allows training to happen during travel or when access to facilities is limited and gives athletes more opportunities to combine eye tracking sessions into other training sessions on their schedule.  

Athletes need to maintain high levels of visual attention for long periods and this can induce high levels of mental fatigue. High mental fatigue levels lead to slower evaluation of information and slower decision making. Mental fatigue increases an athlete's perception of effort which will in turn will decrease their mental and physical capacity.  With an increased perception of effort, an athlete has less access to their physical and mental reserves, regardless of how well trained they are. This creates a knock on effect to performance. 

Soma NPT Vision has taken a range of cognitive training tasks and reworked them for eye tracking, giving athletes a challenging task to perform with their eyes.  

Give your athletes the latest technology in their pocket. 

Benefits 

• Creates a larger capacity for mental and physical fatigue 

• Increased ability to focus 

• Enables an athlete to work harder for longer 

• Reduces perception of effort 

• Increased accuracy 

• Increases mental toughness 

• Faster response speed & decision making

You can learn more about neurotechnology and its application to the high-performance sport by checking out soma-npt.ch/technology