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Pickleball that comes alive

Level up your next
    game night

    EXperience more than just a court

    PicklX is the first immersive pickleball arcade experience, built for groups

    Endless ways to play

    Nobody's too good, nobody's too new

    Bring everyone, we'll make it a party

    Everyone will ask who booked it

    One court, dozens of arcade games

    PICKLX / TECHNOLOGYPATENT PENDING

    First event standard for immersive play

    Programmable
    Entertainment layer
    for Pickleball

    Immersive, patent-pending Pod court design, Pulse game engine

    PicklX Pod

    Deterministic game server, on-court

    Real-time computer-vision inference

    Frame-locked projection mapping

    Sub-frame audio and visual sync

    Spectator-first room geometry

    Any court, any vendor

    Repeatable, productized build

    Sub-second latency

    The whole room reacts with every shot

    Custom game and experience engine

    Multiplayer, ranked, replayable

    Any

      All through Pulse

      PicklX Pulse
      Signal Sources Deterministic Core Experience Layer Vision Models Ball tracking, player pose, shot classification Court Hardware Cameras, ball machine, lighting, dvLED, audio Third-Party Systems Any sensor vendor, booking, POS Adapter Layer any vendor, one event envelope Normalize / Dedupe event_id, ordering, confidence gate Game Server state machine, replayable, idempotent Render Bus one command, every surface, together Edge Compute, On-Prem Court Systems Projection mapping Zoned lighting dvLED, spectator screens Positional audio Ball machine, score, HUD Social Layer Highlight reels, leaderboards, replays AI Game Studio Players build their own, authored in-app, loaded live

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      Why we exist

      We envision a future where pickleball is programmable. Where courts are no longer static rectangles of paint and tape, but responsive systems that interpret every bounce, every step, every rally as structured input.

      Pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in America. Yet, all the capital pouring into new facilities looks the same: rows of courts, mild social features, incremental tweaks. We believe the next breakthrough isn’t more square footage.

      PicklX is building the entertainment layer for pickleball. At our core is a deterministic orchestration engine that transforms trusted on-court events into real-time game state, visual effects, and interactive outcomes. A court that responds to movement and impact. A software-driven launcher that turns drills into chaotic game modes. A system that separates inputs, state transitions, and outputs with precision so the experience feels immediate, controlled, and replayable.

      Topgolf’s $1B+ success stems from reimagining the format around experience, throughput, and spectacle. In our vision, players won’t just reserve court time. They’ll enter modes. Survive waves. Compete in boss battles. Solve puzzles mid-rally. Climb global leaderboards. Generate highlight reels automatically.

      Our ambition is to build the operating system for entertainment-first pickleball: a new way to play that is social, programmable, and built for the next generation of players.

      with love,
      Daryn, Wesley, Tom, Jack

      Daryn
      Daryn
      Wesley
      Wesley
      Tom
      Tom
      Jack
      Jack

      Next Era of Social Pickleball Entertainment is Coming

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