Garmin's new smartwatch can livestream esports gamers' biometric data to fans

Garmin makes some of the best sports smartwatches around, but now the company has turned to a demographic that does most of its training sitting down: professional esports athletes.

On Thursday, the company launched the Garmin Instinct Esports Edition, a special variant of its Garmin Instinct watch with several features aimed at gamers.

For example, the watch can analyze a player's heart rate and stress during play, and livestream this data to audiences, as well as provide long-term trend analysis.

"With the Instinct Esports Edition, esports athletes can tap into that same technology to track and examine how their body responds to intense competition,” Dan Bartel, Garmin vice president of sales, said in a statement. Read more...

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