iPhone App Developers: Make the World Your Holodeck With WristOffice

APTOS, Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, WristOffice(R) (WO) announced the formation of an iPhone Developers Group for "Sports, Exercise and Performance Apps" that use WristOffice.

"WristOffice opens up a whole new frontier for iPhone app developers. The iPhone becomes a 'Holodeck-virtual-reality-room,' as in Star Trek: Next Generation," commented Stan Weitzman, CEO of WristOffice. "Your mission: to go where no mobile app developer has gone before," Weitzman added, alluding to the intro from the original Star Trek.

"When your hands are free you can swing your Callaway golf club, a Louisville Slugger baseball bat, or Jedi Light Saber. For slapshots you can use a real Bauer X:60 hockey stick, not a fake, like Wii(R) and Sony Move(R)," Weitzman continued.

At a recent press conference, Steve Jobs commented about the new iPod Nano that "one of the members of our Board ... is going to use it as a watch." Walt Froloff, co-founder and president of WristOffice, suggested that "a move by Apple towards wearing devices on the wrist would be a very natural progression toward the WO platform and will provide a leap forward for activity-sensing mobile apps." The WO, with 360-degree rotating ability, lets iPhone users view their mobile screen in any position while on their wrist.

Trending to movement and motion tracking?

Mobile app developers are creating golf, baseball, tennis, cricket, running, walking, GPS tracking, and many other activity apps that require holding the iPhone. Sophisticated sensors - 3D accelerometers, GPS, compasses and gyroscopes - are included for motion and movement tracking. WristOffice will enable these sensors to be used in very advanced apps.

Will Big Game Companies vie for app status?

Control of the gaming industry may be in the early stages of being wrested from Nintendo, SONY and Microsoft if they fail to migrate some of their jewels to mobile phones. Meanwhile Nintendo's Wii, Sony's Move and Microsoft's Connect are all pushing the gamers' experience to "movement tracking interfaces."

"According to the 2010 International Games Survey by market research firm Newzoo, there are 40.1 million people in the U.S. who play games on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The total number of gamers in the U.S. on Nintendo DS and DSi consoles was 41 million." (Forbes)

Froloff added, "Players will use their favorite mobile sports app to measure and report performance as they play virtual games of golf, baseball, or cricket in their yard or on the street.

Playing virtual golf at Santana Row, San Jose, CA:

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App developers- to get your WristOffice demo, go to: WristOffice(R) Mobile Sports Apps Developers.

WristOffice has been previously covered by:

Wireless Developer Network

Consumer Electronics Daily News

Yahoo Finance

Forbes.com

Google News

Macsimumnews.com

Huffingtonpost.com

FierceWireless.com

WristOffice, Inc. is a privately held California Corporation based in Aptos, CA.

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