How It Works

How Valor Vision Works

Record an athlete on a phone. Get objective biomechanics back in minutes. Here's the full path from capture to decision.

The process

Capture → Analyze → Coach → Track

1 · Capture

Record the athlete performing an exercise on a single iPhone or iPad. No markers, no suit, no lab, just the camera you already have.

Guided capture in Valor Vision: an athlete tracked by the live skeleton overlay inside the framing guide, with one-tap record
Two range-of-motion captures with the skeleton overlay and joint-angle traces beneath: left ankle dorsiflexion and right hip rotation

2 · Analyze

Valor's biomechanics engine reconstructs 3D movement and computes 30+ kinematic data points: joint angles, sequencing, deceleration, ground-contact time, and more.

3 · Coach

Get objective movement scores and asymmetry flags in an instant report, with video overlays and graphs you can act on and share with sports-medicine staff.

Team Report: athlete scores and assessment summaries side by side
Team Report Progress view: per-athlete score trends over the season with improving, declining, and new-this-period counts

4 · Track

Re-assess over time to measure progress, hit rehab milestones, and inform return-to-play decisions.

The technology

One Platform. Two Modalities. Fusion.

Markerless motion capture measures 3D joint angles from video alone: no markers, no suits, no lab cameras. Valor Vision runs it from a single iPhone or iPad and pairs it with an optional validated IMU for camera+IMU fusion.

2018

Origin: BraveX

Three University of Virginia classmates start prototyping wearable movement-tracking hardware under the BraveX banner, with inertial sensing built in as a subsystem.
2020

The Valor IMU

The inertial subsystem becomes a product of its own: the Valor IMU, wearable sensors built to take biomechanics out of the lab and onto the field.
2024

Independent validation

Validity of Valor Inertial Measurement Unit for Upper and Lower Extremity Joint Angles, published in Sensors (2024), validated Valor against Vicon optical motion capture. DOI 10.3390/s24175833 (Smith, Parikh, Tate, Siddicky, Hsiao).
Today

Camera-based computer vision

Markerless capture from a single iPhone or iPad: the flagship modality. No lab, no markers, results in minutes.
Premium

Sensor fusion

Camera + IMU combined for the highest-fidelity capture: the differentiator camera-only competitors can't match.
Now

One platform, two modalities

A subset of customers run IMU; most run camera; fusion is the premium mode. Choose the fidelity your program needs.
Why this matters

Camera capture makes biomechanics accessible: anyone with an iPhone can run an assessment in minutes. The validated IMU adds lab-grade fidelity where it's needed. Fusion brings them together. Most tools force a single modality; Valor lets you match fidelity to the decision in front of you, from a quick sideline screen to a return-to-play sign-off.

Inside Valor Vision

Compare Captures, Queue Rosters, Level up Athletes

The capture engine is half the story. Valor Vision wraps it in a daily workflow: side-by-side video comparison, live assessment queues for whole rosters, and levels athletes earn by completing their correctives.

Video Compare

Put any two captures side by side: this month against baseline, one athlete against another, pre-season against return-to-play. Playback runs in sync, with joint-angle, velocity, and acceleration traces under each video so you can see exactly where the movement changed.

Valor Vision compare view: two squat captures side by side with left and right hip flexion joint-angle traces
Compare in the app: two squat captures with joint-angle traces under each video
Live assessment queue on iPad: 13 athletes up next, synced across devices
A live open queue: athletes up next, synced across every device
Athlete queues

Assessment day for a whole roster, without the bottleneck. Host an open queue or start from a team template, let coaches join with a code, and scan athlete after athlete while the list stays synced across every device on the floor.

Athlete leveling

Correctives only work when athletes actually do them. In the athlete app, every completed workout and corrective earns XP toward the next level, so the homework between assessments becomes part of the game and coaches can see who is putting in the work.

Valor athlete app home: Level 3 badge with an XP bar toward level 4, a coach-assigned assessment, and a completed workout
Levels and XP, earned by completing assigned workouts and correctives
FAQ

Common Questions

How does Valor Vision work?

You record an athlete on an iPhone or iPad. Valor Vision's markerless, camera-first biomechanics engine reconstructs the movement in 3D and returns objective movement scores, joint metrics, and asymmetry flags in minutes, with no lab and no markers. For higher-fidelity capture, it can pair with the validated Valor IMU wearable, and the two modalities can be fused.

Do I need special hardware or a lab?

No. The flagship modality is camera-first and runs from a single iPhone or iPad. The optional Valor IMU wearable adds lab-grade fidelity when a program needs it, and camera+IMU fusion combines both.

How long does an assessment take?

Assessments are delivered in minutes. You can build assessments from 100+ exercises across range-of-motion, compound movements, and performance movements.

Is Valor Vision validated?

Yes. The Valor IMU was validated against Vicon optical motion capture in a 2024 study published in Sensors (DOI 10.3390/s24175833). The platform is grounded in evidence-based methodologies for reliability and accuracy.

What data does Valor Vision produce?

Objective movement scores, 30+ kinematic data points, joint angles, movement-sequencing patterns, and asymmetry flags, presented as instant athlete reports with video overlays and graphs.

See Your Athletes With Valor Vision.

Book a 30-minute demo. We'll tailor it to your program.