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Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

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Re: Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

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Post by prions »

It looks really interesting, but as an experienced climber I'm not sure if just watching a video of my avatar climbing would really help with skill acquisition.

Also, this claims that the wall type or video quality doesn't matter, but I have a hard time understanding how the model would be able to understand that a small crimp could possibly be dual textured and therefore has only a few specific ways of approaching it.

So it seems that this is more for visualizing a climb (which is a skill most climbers should develop) and not really for dialing in some sort of microbeta for a problem.

Re: Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

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Post by etrautmann »

prions wrote: post #11

It looks really interesting, but as an experienced climber I'm not sure if just watching a video of my avatar climbing would really help with skill acquisition. Also, this claims that the wall type or video quality doesn't matter, but I have a hard time understanding how the model would be able to understand that a small crimp could possibly be dual textured and therefore has only a few specific ways of approaching i…

Agreed - so much about the detail of how you would climb something comes down to details that would be hard to measure with a camera, like textures, your estimate of friction, etc. Very cool idea though, looks fun to test.

Re: Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

#14

Post by syntaxing »

goodmattg wrote: post #10

A few thoughts as I've done academic research & built products in this area: - if you're using SMPL body parameters this will have to stay research / open-source - is this leveraging some sort of monocular depth estimation to estimate the wall in 3D space? Also, do you have assumed camera parameters, or is that also estimated? If there isn't any depth information, this will be highly inaccurate on any cliff routes, b…

Not OP, but why does it have to be open sourced? Copy left license?

Re: Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

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Post by aconz2 »

Very interesting, do wish we could play with it since it is a show hn, maybe repost when it is open sourced/usable. Looking forward to reading about how it works. How does it know which holds are on? How does it know what the top is? Are those inputs or inferred or is it just end to end completing likely body positions one after the other?

Re: Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

#19

Post by rokkamokka »

kettunen wrote: post #18

One of the most fun part of climbing is the problem-solving aspect of it. Figuring your way to get up the wall/boulder. Why would you want to get rid of that?

As with any tutor, this could (possibly) help beginners.
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