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Sky Brown, Olympic Gold medal winner in female skateboarding, tests new technology for Google’s Project Skate.

Project Skate with Sky Brown for Google and Vice

November 08, 2022

Google released Project Skate, a new technology that tracks and quantifies athletes movements when they are skating. “Project Skate is helping to change the face of skateboarding with machine learning.”

See the full article on Google Stories, including images I took, here!

Thanks to ThinkLess Studio, I was brought on the incredible international team as photographer to capture Olympic Gold medal winner in women’s skateboarding, Sky Brown, testing out the new technology at a backyard ramp in Sky’s hometown near Oceanside, California.

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Pictured above: Sky and the Google team reviewing the data after each run.

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