Finnish company Valo Motion is launching Jumpball, an addition to its mixed reality trampoline line.
Jumpball is a competitive ball game that can be used for events and tournaments, combining the best elements of sports and video games to add to the game platform ValoJump. The growth of esports has influenced the 18-month development of Jumpball but it combines physical exercise.
“With Jumpball, we wanted to take the best parts of sports and video games and combine them into a new super-powered trampoline ball sport. We wanted each match of Jumpball to be an exciting competition that’s both fun to play and fun to watch,” says Lauri Lehtonen, the lead developer for ValoJump.
Valo Motion’s pioneering body tracking technology makes sure that the game reacts to the players’ jumps on the trampoline flawlessly while ensuring the game is both responsive and intuitive to play. Jumpball takes advantage of its new custom collision physics technology and calculates which direction the player hits the ball and with how much force. In other words, the software now calculates the collision between the ball and the player. As a result, the new technology determines the exact direction and force for when the player hits or kicks the ball, allowing the players to accurately aim their shots and adjust their hit power.
The game has both single and double player modes. In the single person mode, the player is faced with one of the AI opponents. In the two-player mode, Jumpball is played on two adjacent ValoJump trampolines that connect the players automatically to the same game.
