News

Qoncept announcements, product launches, and applications of our technology.

2026

2026.10.05
REFLEX court-map view technology receives a patentJapanese
2026.10.01
Qoncept signs Judge System Partner agreement with the Japan Badminton AssociationJapanese
2026.09.30
QuDo Rec baseball video analysis service launches
2026.07.10
Shoosoku opens its first permanent installation at Joypolis Sports X in Odaiba, Tokyo
2026.06.08
Video analysis system adopted at the Japan Curling Championships Yokohama 2026
2026.06.05
Former Japan international Naoya Kondo joins Qoncept’s boardJapanese
2026.06.05
Qoncept develops XR Replay to track boat trajectories around the first turn
2026.06.05
Golfboy B2B services reach 200 practice bays across JapanJapanese
2026.06.05
Golfboy passes 10,000 subscriptionsJapanese
2026.04.15
REFLEX video review system adopted at official badminton tournamentsJapanese
2026.04.01
Commercial Golfboy featured by golf industry publication GEWJapanese
2026.02.06
Paris Games translation system used again at Milano Cortina 2026

2025

2025.02.06
Video analysis system developed for shot-by-shot coverage of the 2025 Japan Curling ChampionshipsJapanese
2025.02.03
Captain Tsubasa edition of Shoosoku unveiled at the Captain Tsubasa Cup Katsushika 2025Japanese

2024

2024.10.08
Shoosoku soccer shot measurement app adopted at the Toyama penalty kick tournamentJapanese
2024.08.31
Shoosoku adopted at the Toyama penalty kick championshipJapanese
2024.08.29
Golfboy SlabIn adopted at the Fujisankei ClassicJapanese
2024.08.01
Automatic on-screen text translation developed for the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics
2024.07.31
Strike-zone CG system used for the first time in professional baseball broadcastsJapanese
2024.06.20
Golfboy SlabIn and Swing Tracer adopted at the Earth Mondahmin Cup
2024.06.21
Weekly Golf Digest features Ryo Ishikawa and GolfboyJapanese
2024.06.06
Golfboy SlabIn adopted at the BMW Japan Golf Tour Championship
2024.03.01
Golfboy Vision for Apple Vision Pro announced at the Japan Golf FairJapanese

2023

2023.11.15
Qoncept announces its REFLEX video review system at Inter BEEJapanese
2023.10.27
Golfboy Swing Tracer adopted at the Mitsubishi Electric LadiesJapanese
2023.08.24
Golfboy SlabIn makes its Japan debut at the KBC AugustaJapanese
2023.06.23
Golfboy LIVE adopted at the Earth Mondahmin CupJapanese
2023.03.01
Golfboy LIVE adopted at the PGA TOUR Wells Fargo ChampionshipJapanese
2023.03.01
Golfboy LIVE adopted at the PGA TOUR Dell Technologies Match PlayJapanese
2023.02.01
Golfboy LIVE adopted at the PGA TOUR Arnold Palmer InvitationalJapanese
2023.01.01
Apple CEO Tim Cook tries Golfboy during his visit to JapanJapanese

2022

2022.12.27
Qoncept exhibits Golfboy at CES 2023 and CES UnveiledJapanese
2022.12.01
Qoncept and SEP announce the instrack real-time AR graphics systemJapanese
2022.11.13
Tracking system adopted at the third Table Tennis TOP32 Paris Olympic selection tournamentJapanese
2022.11.06
Baseboy adopted for the Samurai Japan Series 2022Japanese
2022.11.05
Golfboy LIVE adopted at the TOTO Japan ClassicJapanese
2022.11.05
Golfboy LIVE adopted at the Mynavi ABC ChampionshipJapanese
2022.10.16
Golfboy LIVE makes its debut at the 2022 PGA TOUR ZOZO ChampionshipJapanese
2022.09.22
Golfboy LIVE adopted at the 2022 Panasonic Open Golf ChampionshipJapanese
2022.09.16
Golfboy LIVE adopted at the JLPGA Sumitomo Life Vitality Ladies Tokai ClassicJapanese
2022.09.08
Golfboy LIVE adopted at the JLPGA ChampionshipJapanese
2022.07.08
Golfboy featured on an international golf YouTube channelJapanese
2022.06.25
Golfboy LIVE adopted at the JLPGA Earth Mondahmin CupJapanese
2022.06.02
Golfboy featured by golf equipment publication GEWJapanese
2022.05.30
Golfboy LIVE adopted at the BMW Japan Golf Tour ChampionshipJapanese
2022.04.01
SmartArena volleyball tracking installed at Toyoda Gosei Memorial Gymnasium ENTRIOJapanese
2022.03.31
SmartArena volleyball tracking adopted by the Japan Sport CouncilJapanese
2022.03.18
Golfboy LIVE adopted for golf broadcastsJapanese
2022.02.28
Table tennis tracking system installed at BounceJapanese

2021

2021.06.10
Golfboy featured in ALBA magazineJapanese
2021.06.04
Baseboy adopted for NHK professional baseball broadcastsJapanese
2021.06.01
Office relocation announcementJapanese
2021.05.01
Baseboy adopted for Nippon TV professional baseball broadcastsJapanese
2021.04.01
Golfboy golf ball tracking app released for iOSJapanese
2021.02.01
Qoncept releases high-accuracy 3D pose estimation technologyJapanese
2021.01.01
Qoncept’s 3D position analysis adopted by three PARASPORTS LAB projectsJapanese

2020

2020.12.27
Figure skating analysis adopted for Fuji TV broadcastsJapanese
2020.08.25
Baseboy adopted for Fuji TV professional baseball broadcastsJapanese
2020.04.14
Baseboy receives an Excellence Award in the software category of the 32nd SME Excellent New Technologies and Products AwardsJapanese
2020.03.01
Qoncept’s marathon measurement technology adopted for Fuji TV’s live coverage of Tokyo Marathon 2020Japanese

2019

2019.12.05
ISU officially adopts ice:stats at the ISU Grand Prix FinalJapanese
2019.11.18
Baseboy adopted for WBSC Premier12 broadcasts, visualizing batted-ball trajectories, speed, angle, and distanceJapanese
2019.11.11
Baseboy Deck pitching tracker exhibited at Inter BEE 2019Japanese
2019.09.25
Qoncept’s badminton tracking technology adopted at the DAIHATSU YONEX Japan Open 2019Japanese
2019.09.07
Engadget features a ball-speed measurement system using Qoncept STL pitching trackingJapanese
2019.08.09
Qoncept tracking data used in NHK’s AI sumo programJapanese
2019.08.05
Qoncept CEO Hayashi to speak at Nikkei’s Challenge Nippon sports technology seminarJapanese
2019.07.28
Qoncept track-and-field tracking used in Sports Innovation coverage of the men’s 100m and 400m relayJapanese
2019.06.18
Baseboy featured in Blackmagic Design newsJapanese
2019.04.01
Pitch-speed measurement using Qoncept tracking installed at Nagoya DomeJapanese
2019.03.20
Ice Scope with Qoncept tracking makes its international broadcast debutJapanese
2019.02.27
Qoncept to exhibit at the Sports Business Industry ExpoJapanese
2019.02.08
Ice Scope adopted for Fuji TV’s Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2019 coverageJapanese
2019.01.27
Qoncept tracking adopted for NHK’s 8K New Year Grand Sumo broadcastJapanese

2018

2018.12.24
Ice Scope adopted for Fuji TV’s All Japan Figure Skating Championships 2018 coverageJapanese
2018.11.25
Tracking technology adopted for TV Tokyo’s Asahi Shimbun Cup Keirin Festival coverageJapanese
2018.11.10
Tracking system adopted for TV Asahi’s 2018 Japan–MLB All-Star Series coverageJapanese
2018.11.08
Qoncept image analysis enables a simplified shape model of asteroid RyuguJapanese
2018.10.30
Qoncept pose estimation adopted at CROSS-VALUE INNOVATION FORUM 2018Japanese
2018.09.25
Qoncept to exhibit at COUNTDOWN SHOWCASEJapanese
2018.08.18
Company name change and office relocation announcementJapanese
2018.08.02
3D pitching trajectories to appear in broadcasts of the 2018 WBSC Women’s Softball World Championship in ChibaJapanese
2018.08.02
Qoncept vSLAM contributes to the Hayabusa2 missionJapanese
2018.02.20
Qoncept 4D Tracker featured on WBS’s sports and IT reportJapanese
2018.02.14
Qoncept tracking data used in NHK Special’s women’s team pursuit programJapanese
2018.02.14
PONG!PONG! with Qoncept 4D Tracker named a 2018 Interactive Innovation Awards finalistJapanese
2018.02.08
RecAir video transfer system used for figure skating at the PyeongChang Winter OlympicsJapanese
2018.02.07
Qoncept to exhibit at the Sports Business Industry ExpoJapanese

2017

2017.11.15
Qoncept receives the Tokyo Venture Technology Encouragement Award at the 2017 world market competitionJapanese
2017.11.14
Qoncept to exhibit at the Industry Exchange Exhibition 2017Japanese
2017.09.20
Free QHOME home-design VR/AR app using ARKit released on the App StoreJapanese
2017.09.07
Virtual production selected for METI’s Innovative Technologies 2017Japanese
2017.09.01
Joint research proposal with Morpho selected for JAXA’s Space Exploration Innovation HubJapanese
2017.08.18
Qoncept tracking data used in NHK Special’s Japanese sprinters programJapanese
2017.07.18
Qoncept image recognition used to estimate the speed of DENSO industrial dronesJapanese
2017.06.02
Table tennis tracking system selected for T4 TOKYOJapanese
2017.05.23
Qoncept tracking data used in NHK’s Summer Grand Sumo data analysis coverageJapanese
2017.04.28
TechCrunch Japan features Qoncept tracking technologyJapanese
2017.04.24
Qoncept table tennis tracking selected for the World Table Tennis Championships international feedJapanese
2017.04.24
Qoncept partners with Data Stadium and establishes sports ICT research group Ath-Tech LabJapanese
2017.03.08
Qoncept engineers place second at the try! Swift hackathonJapanese
2017.01.10
nikkei BPnet publishes an interview about Qoncept 4D TrackerJapanese

2016

2016.12.17
Qoncept exhibits at Sports Analytics Japan 2016Japanese
2016.10.27
Qoncept to exhibit at Digital Content EXPO 2016Japanese
2016.10.06
Qoncept named among the top 10 popular companies at ILS for the second consecutive yearJapanese
2016.09.02
Qoncept 4D Tracker selected for METI’s Innovative Technologies 2016Japanese
2016.08.29
Office relocation announcementJapanese
2016.06.10
Qoncept enters a capital and business alliance with MorphoJapanese
2016.06.06
Qoncept 4D Tracker adopted for the Rio 2016 Olympic volleyball world qualification tournamentJapanese
2016.05.27
Blackmagic Design features Qoncept’s World Table Tennis Championships trackingJapanese
2016.03.07
Qoncept 4D Tracker adopted at the World Table Tennis Championships 2016Japanese
2016.02.24
Qoncept engineers to speak at try! SwiftJapanese
2016.01.22
Qoncept’s drone business selected for the Next-Generation Innovation Creation Project 2020Japanese
2016.01.22
Qoncept featured in Mynavi NewsJapanese