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The Dallas Cowboys Will Train Their Quarterbacks With Virtual Reality Headsets
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.
...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.
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Jocks and nerds, living together. Mass hysteria!
"The Greens lynched a hacker in Chicago. Last month, but I think the body's still hanging from the old Water Tower."
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.
From what I saw, it looks like they are using the Oculus. It is more restricted than the normal view from a football helmet? I love my DK2, but it sure doesn't give me a whole lot of peripheral vision.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
It used to be that rookie quarterbacks were clueless because the pros are so much faster and more athletic compared to what they experienced in the college game. Also, the variety of offensive and defensive schemes is much greater in the pro game, and usually all the players have the ability to execute them.
Now, guys are playing Madden all through high school and college, so they can recognize a lot of this stuff, particularly the tricky defensive schemes. Many (but not all) newly drafted quarterbacks are productive as rookies.
How long until the real thing is deemed irresponsibly dangerous, then someone adds lasers and rocket launchers to the VR version and boom, e-sports takes off.
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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?
...and it's also the one where the ball isn't a ball?
Oh yeah, that's the game where they mostly carry the ball around, right?
I think I remember now.
Correct. Everyone knows it should be used for pornography.
Welcome, our new puritans. Today, as ever, no one gives about what offends your delicate sensibilities.
And, as per usual, I accidentally a word.
No sweat. You your meaning across.
Will that include how to make bail?
...from a solenoid big enough to simulate getting slammed in the head by a 350-pound goon?
Since they have a virtual Quarterback, it makes sense. If they had a real one...
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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... )
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 UNBELIEVABLE...
E.G.-> Sticks got SO MUCH better - better internal pocket designs alone (I was doing 'corner pockets' for example, for AGES before they became "fashionable" & known superior, shown to me by a TRUE "All-Time Great" in Mr. Tom Korrie (All-American/All-Pro everything you name it from highschool, into Div I college @ SU leading them all-time in scoring to this day iirc)) too... THAT came from the players themselves though.
HOWEVER:
Engineers/geeks did the rest - I remember OLD PL-66 heads with WOODEN shafts (heavy as hell, & hurt when you got beaten on with them though) vs. the "new" SuperLite-II design that "took the game by storm" all thru the 80's-90's - we owed THAT to engineers!
* I recently (2 days ago) actually TOUCHED the newer even BETTER sticks out there now with a tenant of mine's boyfriend who plays (he was astounded I could STILL do what I used to, but like riding a bike, you NEVER ever forget how to go left & right + do 'tricks', lol) for the 1st TIME IN 30++ YEARS... they're even BETTER now!
I.E.-> Better materials like TITANIUM strength & lightness in the shafts (not as prone to bending, since once THAT occurs, the stick is SHOT to shit), & the heads are even better + lighter too imo!
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P.S.=> Jocks etc. (non-nerds in general) OWE GEEKS/NERDS BIGTIME AS THEY IMPROVE IT ALL lending to a better way of LIFE overall in quality of life thru tech improvisations - their sciences permeate EVERYTHING (take a look around you sometime, & ask yourself "I wonder what type of engineering went into that?" on ANYTHING you look around @, & then "How much has it improved due to geeks?"...) apk
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.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
I thought Jim Harbaugh turned them around? Or has the tech community now piled on to the anti-Harbaugh bandwagon and retconned him out of existence?
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.
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Table-ized A.I.
The rest of the world knows it is a joke game . Stop, start replace your entire team.
Cleveland Browns spokesperson Big L Oser announced that the Browns are planning to use Virtual Reality training to their fans. The fans will use this technology to see the Browns win the Superbowl virtually. The spokesperson said, "This is probably the only way a Brown fan is going to see a Brown quarterback lift the Lombardi trophy in the next few decades".
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
So, how long before the virtual screen has white-out all over it?
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
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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