Leaving Paris on Mars 7, ultra marathonian Philippe Fuchs ran from Paris to Beijing in the context of a human and technological challenge. Intempora went along with him.
After having run 5280 miles in 161 days, Philippe Fuchs has arrived in Beijing’s Olympic Stadium on August 14 at 2:30 pm, completing a long way of efforts, emotions and moments of doubt travelled across seven countries and two continents. You can live the 24 steps of his trip over again on the dynamic website Dassault Systèmes dedicated to.
(http://share-vplusr.3ds.com/en/tvnima-journal/)
Beside the physical and human challenge which inspires men such as Philippe Fuchs, the marathon has been the theatre of a scientific experience in which technological partner Intempora SA was instrumental. Indeed, as a Virtual Reality Professor at Ecole des Mines de ParisTech, Philippe Fuchs ran with several sensors dispatched on his body and linked to a mobile computer system. The acquired data were transmitted in real time to Dassault Systèmes, a major partner in Philippe’initiative, to be displayed on his V+R challenge website
(http://share-vplusr.3ds.com/) and, in parallel, recorded locally.
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This complex application was made available thanks to Intempora’s Real Time Multisensor Advanced Prototyping Software RTMaps. All physical, meteorological, biomechanical and medical data captured allowed engineers and public to follow step by step Philippe Fuchs’ movements, dynamics of race, heart rate and meteorological environment.
All recorded data will now be processed and analysed by the Laboratoire CNRS Mouvement et Perception de l’Université de Méditerranée and by the Laboratoire Physiologie et Physiopathologie de l’Exercice et Handicap de l’Université Jean Monnet of St Etienne to realize precise simulations to study tiredness, physical constraints or consequences of sports equipments on the human foot. High scientific outputs are expected from these research works.
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