Oxford Metrics Regulatory News (OMG)

25 June 2019

Oxford Metrics plc

("Oxford Metrics", the "Company" or the "Group")

Vicon announces new inertial tracking system

Next generation of tracking technology will help drive the future of sports biomechanics

Oxford Metrics plc (LSE: OMG) the international software company servicing government, life sciences, entertainment and engineering markets is pleased to announce that Vicon, a world leader in motion measurement, has today announced the release of Blue Trident, a lightweight wearable sensor, and focal point of a new ecosystem designed to advance assessment and rehabilitation techniques in sports, biomechanics and research.

Using the new sensor, anyone from athletes in the field to biomechanists in the lab can record data before processing it through one of three options:  

· Vicon Capture.U iOS app - all new app to perform real-time analysis of arm, spine and lower limb data for sports scientists, biomechanists, physiotherapists and sports teams, from elite to grass roots

· IMU Step - lower limb monitoring tool to aid return-to-play and reduce reinjury risk for athletes and trainers in collegiate & pro team running sports

· Vicon Nexus 2.10 software - integrates inertial data from Blue Trident with optical data, enabling biomechanics researchers to significantly expand the scope of their work

Created with a combination of Vicon's 35 years of industry-leading motion capture R&D and expertise in inertial tracking, Blue Trident addresses the limitations of previous inertial sensors, beginning with the design. Each sensor is 25% smaller and lighter than existing inertial sensors, can be used underwater and offers an improved battery life capable of up to 12 hours of use.

Blue Trident's stand-out feature is the dual-g sensor. This combines a high-g sensor capable of capturing the peaks of physical movement up to 200g, the highest levels of data capture available, with a low-g sensor working up to 16g to track lower stress movements. Together, they measure simultaneously, ensuring the highest fidelity data and avoiding sensor saturation.

Applications are wide, with the sensors and software being applicable in many sports, including basketball, rugby and football, as well as cricket and for the first time with Blue Trident, swimming.

 "Motion capture is fast becoming an essential tool for elite sports training and injury rehabilitation. It enables coaches to gain an objective measure of the load athletes endure during training, helping them optimise performance and accelerate return to play." said Nick Bolton, CEO of Oxford Metrics. "For the first time, Blue Trident will enable the combination of data gathered in the field with data captured in the laboratory. This end-to-end ecosystem offers our customers an entirely new way to analyse human movement, expanding our addressable market and the scale of potential relationships with customers."

About Oxford Metrics

Oxford Metrics develops and markets analytics software for motion measurement and infrastructure asset management to clients in over 70 countries worldwide. Our list of clients across the globe is as diverse as the markets we operate in; we help highways authorities manage and maintain their road networks, hospitals and clinicians decide therapeutic strategies and Hollywood studios create stunning visual effects. And the diversity of applications is growing all the time.

The group trades through two subsidiaries: Vicon and Yotta. Vicon is the world's leader in high precision motion measurement analysis to thousands of customers worldwide, including Guy's Hospital, EA Sports, MIT and NASA and our software is used in an ever-expanding range of applications. Yotta provides cloud-based infrastructure asset management software to central and local government agencies and other infrastructure owners. Yotta has a large number of high profile clients including Highways England and Amey in the UK and VicRoads in Australia amongst others.

Founded in 1984 our group is headquartered in Oxford with offices in Leamington Spa, Gloucester, California, Colorado and Singapore. Since 2001, Oxford Metrics (LSE: OMG), has been a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange.

For more information about Oxford Metrics, visit www.oxfordmetrics.com

About Vicon

Academy Award®-winning Vicon is an innovator in motion capture and the world's largest supplier of motion measurement systems. Established in 1984, Vicon serves customers in visual effects, object tracking, virtual and augmented realities, engineering, broadcast, biomechanics, sports and clinical sciences. 

With thousands of customers world-wide, including Guy's Hospital, EA Sports, Bandai Namco, Sony, Dreamscape Immersive, MIT and NASA, the diverse applications for Vicon technology continues to grow.

More recently, Vicon has seen the demand for motion measurement going mainstream and applied to a broader range of applications than ever before with new markets including Location-based Virtual Reality and Elite Sports.

Vicon is a subsidiary of Oxford Metrics (LSE: OMG), the international software company servicing government, life sciences, entertainment and engineering markets. For more information about Vicon, visit www.vicon.com.