BEYOND 01
BEYOND 01 is a pair of 35-gram wearable camera sensors that clip onto shoelaces and capture full-body 3D kinematics outdoors at 30 Hz, delivering lab-grade biomechanics data to researchers, clinicians and sports scientists without a motion-capture lab.
What is BEYOND 01?
BEYOND 01 is the first wearable product from Outer Motion, a University of Twente spin-off based in Enschede, the Netherlands, and previously known as wearm.ai. It is a set of two wearable camera sensors with integrated inertial units that clip onto the crossings of a runner's shoelaces, one on each shoe, cameras facing each other. Each sensor weighs 35 grams, which the company points out is less than the weight variation between advanced running shoes. From that position the pair reconstructs full-body 3D kinematics at 30 Hz.
The design goal is the removal of setup friction. There is no tripod, no base station, no marker placement, no predefined capture volume and no calibration step: the company claims a 30-second setup and a resulting fifty-fold increase in data collection efficiency. Recording is standalone, requiring neither a smartphone nor a Wi-Fi connection during use, with more than two hours of continuous capture per charge and eight hours of onboard storage. Placing the sensors on the supplied Y-cable to charge triggers an automatic Wi-Fi upload, taking roughly twice the recording duration. The data is then processed in Outer Motion's cloud pipeline, and users manage experiments and download processed kinematics through a web application portal.
Four use cases are put forward: in-the-wild biomechanics studies, home-based rehabilitation assessment, sports product R&D, and the creation of population-scale motion datasets for AI and robotics. Validation has been published against the three-camera OpenCap system, with correlation coefficients of 0.90 to 0.93 for hip and knee, and joint-angle RMSE values of 8.1 degrees at the knee, 8.5 at the hip and 10.1 at the ankle. Comparison against a gold-standard marker system is described as ongoing, with a roadmap target of 5.0 degrees.
Two important limits are stated by the vendor itself: BEYOND 01 is not a medical device, and as of the June 2026 manual the product was not CE-marked, being supplied for internal testing, research, pilot or evaluation use only.
What it does
- Capture full-body 3D kinematics at 30 Hz outdoors, with no capture volume and no calibration
- Record walking and running continuously for more than two hours per charge, storing up to eight hours on board
- Run unsupervised, remote data collection across many participants in parallel and over months
- Upload recordings automatically over Wi-Fi as soon as the sensors are put on charge
- Process raw capture into joint kinematics through a cloud pipeline and retrieve results in a web portal
- Measure rehabilitation progress and return-to-activity outside the clinic
- Build large, ecologically valid human motion datasets for AI and robotics training
When to use BEYOND 01 / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if BEYOND 01 is the right fit.
When to use BEYOND 01
- Biomechanics researchers running large-scale or longitudinal gait studies outside the laboratory
- Rehabilitation and physiotherapy teams measuring recovery progression in patients' own environments
- Sports scientists analysing running technique under real training and competition loads
- R&D teams testing footwear or protective equipment in genuine usage conditions
- AI and robotics teams building large, ecologically valid human motion datasets
When not to use BEYOND 01
- Clinicians who need a certified medical device for diagnosis, treatment decisions or emergency monitoring
- Teams studying movements other than walking and running, such as jumping, throwing or gym work
- Indoor-only or night-time protocols, since the sensors require outdoor daylight conditions
- Laboratories that require marker-grade accuracy, given joint-angle errors of roughly eight to ten degrees
- Developers looking for an API, a mobile app or ready-made integrations with existing analysis stacks
How to use BEYOND 01
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Check that both sensors are charged and synchronised, indicated by a white breathing LED on each
- Thread the sensor base through two shoelace crossings and click the sensor in until it locks
- Put the left sensor on the left shoe and the right on the right, with the camera lenses facing each other
- Gently wiggle each sensor to confirm it is fully seated before moving
- Press each sensor button for half a second and wait for the LED to change from slow blue breathing to a double blue pulse
- Record the walking or running session outdoors in daylight, with no phone or network needed
- After the session, connect both sensors to the Y-cable and charge them to trigger the automatic Wi-Fi upload
- If the sensors move to a new location, join the temporary BEYOND access point and open 192.168.4.1 to enter the new network credentials, doing this for each sensor separately
- Use the reset pin through the small hole at the rear of a sensor if it stops responding to button presses
- Manage experiments and download the processed 3D kinematics from the web portal
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Far cheaper than the laboratory systems it is compared against, which the site prices between 25,000 and 110,000 euros
- No motion-capture expertise required, which removes the technician bottleneck from data collection
- Measurement follows the participant anywhere, making longitudinal and unsupervised field studies practical
- Validation is published and openly accessible, with correlations of 0.90 to 0.93 for hip and knee
- A genuinely free three-month hardware loan is available to non-profit research organisations
- Data ownership is explicitly left with the institution, and pilot recordings stay accessible for twelve months afterwards
- The team comes from movement research and is backed by a named network of European partner institutions
Cons
- No privacy policy, terms and conditions or legal notice are published anywhere on the site
- The product was not CE-marked as of the June 2026 manual and is supplied for research or evaluation use only
- Accuracy sits below a marker-based reference, with joint-angle errors of 8.1 to 10.1 degrees against a 5.0-degree roadmap target
- Restricted to walking and running, in daylight, and the sensors cannot be submerged
- Battery life of just over two hours limits a single continuous recording session
- No API, no mobile app and no named third-party integrations
- Three different prices for the standard unit appear on the same page, at 7,750, 8,900 and 4,900 euros
Pricing & Plans
There is no permanent free plan. A free option exists but is time-limited: the Research Pilot lends a complete BEYOND 01 system for three months to selected non-profit research organisations. The cheapest paid entry point is 4,900 EUR for a single unit under the Research Institutions tier, presented as an introductory price with a 45% reduction. The Commercial R&D Teams tier is listed at 8,900 EUR per single unit. All paid tiers bundle the full hardware set, cloud service access and support. Deployments requiring more than five systems are quoted individually on request. Note that a comparison table on the same page states a standard unit price of 7,750 EUR, which does not match the 8,900 EUR listed in the pricing section.
- a full BEYOND 01 system
- cloud analysis access
- a technical onboarding session
- data ownership by the institution and an optional co-authorship acknowledgment. Requires a two-page research plan
- accepted on scientific merit
- with limited places.
- full hardware system
- cloud analysis access
- onboarding and setup training
- twelve months of technical support
- Knowledge Center access and a community support channel. Presented as suitable for dissertations and pilot studies.
- full hardware system
- cloud service access
- a data analysis service
- research methods co-design
- priority onboarding and training
- a dedicated support contact
- validation documentation for IRB submission and Knowledge Center access.
- teams needing larger deployments are asked to contact Outer Motion directly for a quote.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how BEYOND 01 handles your data.
GDPR overview
The site contains no mention of the GDPR whatsoever: there is no privacy policy, no terms and conditions, no legal notice, no data protection officer and no cookie information. Eleven candidate legal URLs were probed and all returned genuine 404 responses. The only privacy statement published anywhere is a short notice inside the product manual, warning that the cameras may record the user, bystanders and the surrounding environment, and instructing operators to obtain the required permission or consent before recording in research, clinical, team or public settings. The Research Pilot page likewise pushes responsibility onto the research group, which must obtain institutional, ethical and data-protection approvals before collecting data. Being established in the Netherlands, Outer Motion falls under the GDPR directly and needs no Article 27 representative.
Who owns the data?
There is no published privacy policy or terms and conditions on the site, so ownership is only documented for the free Research Pilot. There, Outer Motion states that the research group retains ownership of the research data it generates, and the pricing table repeats that data ownership stays with the participating institution. Non-confidential data may be shared with Outer Motion, but only where participant consent, institutional policy, ethical approval and applicable data-protection law allow it. Pre-existing intellectual property remains with its original owner, while the treatment of jointly developed methods or software is left to a separate collaboration agreement. Loaned hardware itself remains the property of Outer Motion.
Reuse rights
For pilot participants, the position is explicit: research groups remain responsible for the scientific design, analysis, interpretation and conclusions of their studies, and results may be published freely, including findings that expose limitations of the system. Outer Motion only asks to review manuscripts, abstracts, posters and theses beforehand, and limits that review to checking technical descriptions, correcting factual errors and protecting confidential or patentable material; it undertakes not to influence scientifically supported conclusions. Recordings and processed outputs stay downloadable from the platform for twelve months after a pilot ends. For paying customers, no equivalent clause is published, and the absence of terms and conditions means reuse rights outside the pilot programme are undocumented.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Outer Motion publishes nothing about where user data is hosted. Recordings are described only as being uploaded over Wi-Fi to a cloud pipeline for processing, with results retrieved through a web portal, and no cloud provider, country, region or data centre is ever named. There is no privacy policy, no trust or security page and no subprocessor list to consult, so the hosting jurisdiction is simply unknown. The single duration the site does commit to concerns the free pilot: recordings and generated outputs remain available on the Outer Motion platform for twelve months after the three-month loan ends. The website itself resolves to an address geolocated in the Netherlands, but that describes the marketing site only and says nothing about where measurement data is stored. Institutions with a data residency requirement should obtain this in writing before deploying.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting BEYOND 01.
- The sensors are cameras: they may record bystanders and surroundings, so consent and permission must be secured before any session in a public, clinical or team setting
- No privacy policy or terms and conditions are published, leaving retention, hosting, subprocessors and model-training practices undocumented for buyers
- The product was not CE-marked at the date of the manual and is restricted to research or evaluation use, with resale prohibited without written agreement
- It is not a medical device, and using its output to inform diagnosis or treatment decisions would misuse it
- Roughly eight to ten degrees of joint-angle error can be read as precision it does not have if results are reported without that context
- The configuration access point ships with the same default password on every sensor, which is a weak point in shared or public environments
- Partner study figures are presented with anonymous attribution and no publication link, so they should not be treated as peer-reviewed evidence
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low for daily use. The sensors clip onto shoelaces in about 30 seconds with no calibration, no software to install and no expert operator; onboarding is included in all three tiers. The only genuinely technical step is reconfiguring Wi-Fi when moving to a new site, which means joining a temporary access point and entering credentials at 192.168.4.1 on each sensor separately. The real difficulty is methodological rather than technical: defining a field protocol, standardising metadata and monitoring data quality as collection proceeds.
Deployment
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Frequently asked questions
What exactly does BEYOND 01 measure?
Do I need a laboratory, markers or a calibration procedure?
How long can it record, and where is the data stored during a session?
How do recordings reach the analysis platform?
How accurate is it compared with established systems?
What does it cost, and is there a free option?
Who owns the data collected with the system?
Is BEYOND 01 a medical device?
Can it be used at night or in the rain?
Is there an API or a mobile application?
Should you pick BEYOND 01?
BEYOND 01 makes a clear and unusually honest trade. It gives up some accuracy against a marker-based laboratory system, and in exchange it removes almost everything that makes biomechanical data collection expensive: the capture volume, the technician, the calibration, and the requirement that participants come to you. For a team whose research question is about how people actually move outside a laboratory, that trade is often the whole point, and at 4,900 to 8,900 euros per unit the system sits an order of magnitude below the optical rigs it is compared against.
The evidence offered is real but partial. A published comparison against OpenCap puts hip and knee correlations in the good-to-excellent range, and the validation paper is openly accessible; the comparison against a gold-standard marker system is still described as ongoing. Prospective buyers should read the vendor's own caveats carefully: this is not a medical device, it was not CE-marked at the date of the manual, and it is supplied for research, pilot or evaluation use.
The weakest point has nothing to do with the hardware. Outer Motion publishes no privacy policy, no terms and conditions and no legal notice, which leaves data retention, hosting jurisdiction, subprocessors and model-training practices entirely undocumented for paying customers. Only the Research Pilot page states anything contractual, and it states it well. Add three conflicting prices for the standard unit on a single page, and the impression is of a very young company whose engineering is ahead of its paperwork.
For a non-profit research group, the sensible move is obvious: the free three-month loan costs nothing but a two-page proposal and answers the accuracy question on your own protocol. Commercial buyers should ask for the missing legal documentation in writing before committing.
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