The Dallas Cowboys Will Train Their Quarterbacks With Virtual Reality Headsets 38
An anonymous reader writes: The Dallas Cowboys have signed a two-year deal with a virtual reality sports startup called StriVR Lab to train quarterbacks using a VR headset according to reports. The technology was originally developed by Derek Belch, a former kicker at Stanford, and it is credited with turning around the school's football program. Besides Stanford, StriVR also signed deals with: Arkansas, Clemson, Vanderbilt, Auburn and Dartmouth.
Season (Score:1)
...the technology was credited with helping the school turn around its football season.
It says season.
The skeptic in me says that until there are more seasons played and more teams using this VR system, I gonna suggest Stanford just had a good season - it was nothing but a coincidence.
Uh-oh (Score:5, Funny)
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As it turns out, the lead programmer used to get atomic wedgies by Tony Romo in high school. Finally, at long last, he has a chance for revenge. But since Romo can't get any worse, he gets better anyways. No matter what, nerds lose.
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Somewhat funny but the fact is almost every normal person under 30 today would be considered a "nerd" by the previous generation and the nerds of today are still way beyond the normal person. The goal has simply been moved.
The technology used here is simple commodity hardware and software, there is nothing nerdy about it by today's standards.
Refurbed F-35 HMDS Prototypes (Score:2)
Might as well get the state involved in this and throw a few of the more-expensive-than-God's-stereo system Lightning II HUD helmets and throw a punter's faceguard and a star on them, I'm sure DARPA wouldn't mind offloading some of them since they didn't pay for them or anything.
What FOV are these headsets going to have? (Score:2)
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Welcome, our new puritans. Today, as ever, no one gives about what offends your delicate sensibilities.
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And, as per usual, I accidentally a word.
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Hard to fall off the floor with the Cowboys... (Score:1)
As a native Texan, we know that the Cowboys stadium is the first place to go in case of a severe weather issue, especially last Memorial Day weekend.
No chance of a touchdown there.
Football... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh yeah, that's the game where they mostly carry the ball around, right?
I think I remember now.
Training? (Score:1)
Will they include haptic feedback? (Score:1)
...from a solenoid big enough to simulate getting slammed in the head by a 350-pound goon?
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Yes, I'm sure they've totally forgotten about the actual physical aspects of the game, and will do this 100% VR.
Just like pilots now exclusively use flight sims and don't fly real planes.
Honestly, it's a tool. It's not the entirety of everything they will ever seek to do. Nobody is going to strap VR goggles to someone's head and then send them out to play football.
Fitting (Score:3)
Former NCAA lettering 1st string jock here (Score:1)
See subject: Nerds are GREAT (now I'm the guy I would've laughed @ then in the 80's, with a BIAS for sure on my part now as a "nerd/geek" ala APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit: http://start64.com/index.php?o... [start64.com] )
So - why's my subject that?
Ok - I played the sport of Lacrosse for a many time national or divisional champ (partial athletic/academic scholarship aid in room & board).
I watched the equipment get SO MUCH BETTER in the timeframe I played the sport circa 1978-1988 roughly, it was UNBELIEV
Well then.. (Score:2)
They're virtually guaranteed to lose. No amount of tech is going to save that team except if they brought a robot in to shut Jones up and push him out of meetings about team strategy and player personnel.
Testing headsets for robustness... (Score:2)
Equipping quarterbacks with VR headsets may a good way to test their robustness. However, I'm sure that players will prefer their regular helmet, even during training.
Virtual DeflateGate (Score:3, Funny)
I'm creating the Flat-A-Tron to sell to the New England Patriots
Counter Punch by Cleveland Browns. (Score:3)
Clemson, huh? (Score:2)
So, how long before the virtual screen has white-out all over it?
Go Hawks (Score:2)
You have fun with the High Tech VR stuff, and hope to the gods you do not play the Seahawks this year. Russel Wilson practices with Low Tech Real Life Technology.
Go Hawks!
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You have fun with the High Tech VR stuff, and hope to the gods you do not play the Seahawks this year.
Go Hawks!
Cowboys beat the Seahawks in Seattle last year. They play them in Dallas on Nov. 1st this year.
Go Cowboys!
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