Sports, gamification everywhere

Our concept test for Human Movement has shown that gamification fits well to values of students nowadays. I think that companies and sport centres will use more often game elements for sports in the future. It all will be about sporting in a fun and likable way, for everyone. Even those who do not like doing sports at all! I'll explain why this is COOL!

 

Here are some signs that show that gamification is a trend and will become bigger: an app which can make it easier to do sports. It is called “Let’s Play”. This will make you enjoying sports and meeting new people. People can select their favourite sport and the app gives a notification about interesting sport events or sport classes. It is a way to invite people and students to do exercise!

There’s another app that will help people (with obesities) to do sports. They can do a competition against others with it. The app’s called Run an Empire. It’s perfect for the people who enjoy playing with strategy and play. I think this will increase people to do sports more often in future.

Another good initiative is Google Glass. You might know the Glass project already, but probably you didn’t know this. You can set your own goals with those glasses: while running, cycling or swimming. Zombies, for example, can chase you so you really will have to run hard! I think that those game elements will get every human to do sports and they will love it. It’s all about gamification in the future, but the sports have still to be authentic.

Sources: Lets Play, Run an Empire, Google Glass.