Amazon Halo To Use Smartphone Camera To Assess User’s Movement Health

Amazon Halo, a health and wellness app, launched a new feature: Movement Health, which collects data from a user’s smartphone camera about the user’s functional fitness. Amazon Halo combines a wristband with suite of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered health tools and insights to help customers improve their individual health and wellness. Functional fitness is defined as the body’s readiness to perform everyday movements to bend, reach, lift, twist, pull, push, and walk.

For the new Movement Health feature, the Halo app assesses user stability, mobility, and posture as the user completes five movements: single leg balances, forward . . .