From the Today Show
Matt Lauer:
>>> we are just 240 days away from the opening ceremony of the 2012 london olympics. usa swimmers, ryan phelps, ryan lochte and katie franklin, natalie. you're unveiling something newell' be seeing in competition, i don't normally say could you please take your jacket off but would you please? what is this we're going to see?
>> this is the new speedo fs3 and this is the cap that goes with it, the and the goggles that go with it, i will show you.
>> why is this new and revolutionary?
>> because this is the first time it's a three-piece system that everything goes together so you buy it, the buy the cap, the goggles, the suit and makes you more hydrodynamic and it has a body stability web which compresses you.
>> we're going to see more of it and talk to you about where you guys are in training as you prepare for london, but first these messages and your local news.
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Speedo has a preorder countdown on their site
www.speedousa.com/.../index.jsp
wonder how much better the suit is and what the improvements are?
Speedo unveils FASTSKIN3
Win a Speedo Fastskin3 experience - YouTube
Win a Speedo Fastskin3 experience - YouTube
Yeah but in backstroke, especially long course and/or outdoors, you need your peripheral vision to keep from running into the lanelines. I wear rather large Speedo Baja goggles for that reason.
Apparently your peripheral vision or field of vision if unobstructed is about 200 degrees (100 to the left and 100 to the right). From wiki:
"The normal human visual field extends to approximately 60 degrees nasally (toward the nose, or inward) from the vertical meridian in each eye, to 100 degrees temporally (away from the nose, or outwards) from the vertical meridian, and approximately 60 degrees above and 75 below the horizontal meridian.citation needed] In the United Kingdom, the minimum field requirement for driving is 60 degrees either side of the vertical meridian, and 20 degrees above and below horizontal. The macula corresponds to the central 13 degrees of the visual field; the fovea to the central 3 degrees.
Your goggles obviously limit this field depending on their shape and lens. I've never checked to see how much my vanquisher's obstruct, but I'm guessing maybe i can see about 65-75 degrees each way or a total of about 130-150 degrees without "looking". Will try to check this out tomorrow morning. I'm not sure if they reduced the lens obstruction to get to 180 degree field or incorporated a wide angle "fish eye" lens on the sides or somethihg else. If you are flipped over and swimming on your back, you could now be able to see the lane ropes alongside with 180 vision that were previoulsy below and outside of your field of vision with goggles. You now could be able to see down to the plane of the water. Good point and might be interesting.
Yeah but in backstroke, especially long course and/or outdoors, you need your peripheral vision to keep from running into the lanelines. I wear rather large Speedo Baja goggles for that reason.
Apparently your peripheral vision or field of vision if unobstructed is about 200 degrees (100 to the left and 100 to the right). From wiki:
"The normal human visual field extends to approximately 60 degrees nasally (toward the nose, or inward) from the vertical meridian in each eye, to 100 degrees temporally (away from the nose, or outwards) from the vertical meridian, and approximately 60 degrees above and 75 below the horizontal meridian.citation needed] In the United Kingdom, the minimum field requirement for driving is 60 degrees either side of the vertical meridian, and 20 degrees above and below horizontal. The macula corresponds to the central 13 degrees of the visual field; the fovea to the central 3 degrees.
Your goggles obviously limit this field depending on their shape and lens. I've never checked to see how much my vanquisher's obstruct, but I'm guessing maybe i can see about 65-75 degrees each way or a total of about 130-150 degrees without "looking". Will try to check this out tomorrow morning. I'm not sure if they reduced the lens obstruction to get to 180 degree field or incorporated a wide angle "fish eye" lens on the sides or somethihg else. If you are flipped over and swimming on your back, you could now be able to see the lane ropes alongside with 180 vision that were previoulsy below and outside of your field of vision with goggles. You now could be able to see down to the plane of the water. Good point and might be interesting.
