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.
The cool thing about this watch is that the Garmin Instinct in its vanilla form is a very capable sport watch, with essentially all the same activity tracking features and sensors that Garmin’s top sports watches have, including those in the far pricier Fenix series. The Instinct Esports Edition inherits all those features, with a dedicated esports mode on top.