ROUVY has today announced a new integration with Strava. According to the virtual cycling platform, this will… ‘bring Strava Live Segments to over 1m athletes on ROUVY’s e-sports platform.’
Strava is a leading social platform for athletes and the largest sports community in the world with over 100m athletes on the platform. Going forwards, Strava Live Segments will add another dimension to the ROUVY experience, providing opportunities compete on a Strava segment in a virtual cycling environment similar to doing so on a stretch of road or trail outdoors.
ROUVY’s platform is based on geo-located videos and workouts. Anyone with a bike trainer or smart bike and a screen device, users can join online and ride along more than 70 official races across all continents.
Virtual courses encompass La Vuelta a Espana to the Tour of Japan, Challenge Roth in Germany to the USA Triathlon Championships.
Using the platform, ROUVY athletes will now be able to compete against themselves, their friends or pros athletes on Strava leaderboards. Riders can track their efforts and chase personal bests in real-time with Strava Live Segments on ROUVY’s routes.
From now on, cyclists and triathletes will see their own public records and achievements represented as augmented fellow avatars in the peloton. Strava Live Segments give athletes real-time feedback on how they’re tracking against their personal efforts on a segment or group of segments. Once an athlete crosses the start line of a chosen segment on ROUVY, Strava provides details on time elapsed, projected time ahead or behind PR pace and distance remaining.
The Strava Live Segments feature is compatible with 77 devices, but this is reportedly the first time it has been implemented on an indoor augmented cycling app. Strava and ROUVY will begin making popular segments available to users, starting with initial segments on La Vuelta roads.
