Want to find out more about PLAYR? Visit www.playrsmartcoach. PLAYR is available for purchase in the UK and Ireland from June 6th. The opportunity for aspiring players to now use technology such as PLAYR is fantastic.” “Catapult has been integral to our recent successes, allowing us to revolutionise our training regime leading to top quality performances on the pitch. “Technology and sports science is key to the modern game, whether that be an elite professional athlete chasing a Premier League title, or an amateur just starting their career,” said Matt Reeves, Head of Fitness and Conditioning at Leicester City FC. No other tracking device comes as close to elite technology as PLAYR, and it’s available for all.”įrom speed and distance measurements, to heat maps, performance comparisons and nutritional advice, PLAYR is the only consumer device of its kind and is set to help users take their performance to the next level. “For the first time, amateurs and aspiring players will be able to train like the pros and ultimately bring a higher level of performance onto the pitch. “PLAYR is a system that promises to revolutionise how people play the game,” said Benoît Simeray, Consumer CEO of Catapult.
Catapult is rooted in science, and this heritage has become a prominent part of PLAYR, with our SmartCoach system presenting sports science advice individually tailored and contextualised to each session. This version lets you hone your football skills on the go - anytime, any place, anywhere Playing drills earns MATCH FITNESS that you can use to unlock matches in the I AM PLAYR web version Challenge your. The hero of PLAYR is SmartCoach, an extension of the sports science knowledge we have brought to the professional game for the past twelve years. I AM PLAYR mobile is a companion app to the smash web football game that lets you play the life of a professional footballer. Combining performance data and sports science insights, PLAYR is set to transform the way aspiring footballers understand and improve their performance. We have channeled this expertise into the creation of PLAYR to bring wearable devices, insights and analytics to athletes participating at all levels of the sport.Ĭonsisting of a SmartPod, SmartVest and the SmartCoach app, PLAYR gives users the ability to track key performance metrics, access advice from real Premier League coaches, and benchmark themselves against peers and pros. "Our aim is for I Am Playr to be the world's biggest, most authentic online football game and to have reached this milestone and be able to stake our claim as the biggest Facebook Unity game just six months since launch is a pretty incredible achievement," Rose added.Today Catapult has announced the launch of PLAYR, the innovative new wearable designed to enable amateur footballers to prepare, perform and recover like the world’s best.Īs the game’s premier provider of athlete monitoring technology, Catapult has worked with the leading names in football – including Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Leicester City – for more than 12 years. Of course, what we're really interested in is the studio's plans for a mobile version - and we won't have long to wait, it seems, as We R Interactive CEO David Rose says that development of I Am Playr for mobile is "well underway in preparation for the Euros 2012". In the game, the player takes on the role of the professional footballer and explore the land from a first-person perspective in.
It mixes the Association Football game with social network elements and available to play on the social-networking site Facebook. The game, for those who haven't heard of it before, aims to recreate the feeling of being a real footballer, boasting goals, glory, and even girls. I AM PLAYR is a Sports-based Single-player video game developed by We R Interactive. This statistic obviously refers to the fact that the game was built using the popular Unity engine. That makes We R Interactive's first-person footy game the "biggest Facebook Unity game" now available, according to its developer. The BAFTA-nominated online football game I Am Playr has seen a great deal of success on Facebook recently, racking up 1 million monthly active users just six months after it made its debut. I AM PLAYR is a football game that lets the user play the life of a professional footballer, both on and off the pitch. UPDATE: We R Interactive has told us that the game will "be rolling out on iOS" initially. We R Interactive, the UK-based developer of social titles We R Football and I AM PLAYR, has been acquired by the Inspired Gaming Group, which focuses on the provision of gaming terminals for.