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Report: Cowboys to implement new technology in developing players
Written By DeMario Phipps-Smith
Posted: 06/07/2015, 01:17pm
The Dallas Cowboys have made an agreement with a virtual reality company to allow players a 3-D look at live action from practice, a source confirmed to Recode.net.
The Cowboys have inked a two-year deal with StriVR Labs, a virtual reality sports startup, to train all of its quarterbacks using a VR headset called Cardinal, according to a source familiar with the deal. Players will see a live-action 3-D video replay of a football play from the quarterback’s perspective, and can review that play from a first-person view over and over.
It’s like watching a game of Madden, because the system isn’t interactive — yet — so it is like watching a video game to study how to make better reads.
Even Teddy Bridgewater of the Minnesota Vikings has said video games help him as quarterback.
Former Stanford University kicker Derek Belch developed StriVR as a master’s thesis in the school’s VR lab, and brought the company out earlier this year after the technology was credited with helping the school turn around its football season.
Belch’s system boasts some eye-popping stats. Like how Kevin Hogan went from completing 64 percent of his passes up to 76 percent after the Stanford quarterback started using the headset for about 20 minutes before games. Stanford also went from averaging 24 points a game to 38 in those final three games since Cardinal was introduced. .
Besides Stanford, StriVR previously signed deals with five collegiate football programs: Arkansas, Clemson, Vanderbilt, Auburn and Dartmouth.
The Cowboys have added a new room for the system at their Valley Ranch facility. During the last two weeks the Cowboys have had a stationary camera behind the line of scrimmage to give a 360-degree view of the plays, complete with sound, ESPN reports.
Quarterbacks, as well as linebackers or safeties, will wear a virtual-reality headset that will adjust the video in the room to what the player is looking at and allow the coaches to see if they are making the proper reads or checks during each play. It will also help the backups get views of plays they would not have experienced.
As of now the Cowboys are the only NFL team using StriVR but other teams, like the Atlanta Falcons, are considering adding the system.
Written By DeMario Phipps-Smith
Posted: 06/07/2015, 01:17pm
The Dallas Cowboys have made an agreement with a virtual reality company to allow players a 3-D look at live action from practice, a source confirmed to Recode.net.
The Cowboys have inked a two-year deal with StriVR Labs, a virtual reality sports startup, to train all of its quarterbacks using a VR headset called Cardinal, according to a source familiar with the deal. Players will see a live-action 3-D video replay of a football play from the quarterback’s perspective, and can review that play from a first-person view over and over.
It’s like watching a game of Madden, because the system isn’t interactive — yet — so it is like watching a video game to study how to make better reads.
Even Teddy Bridgewater of the Minnesota Vikings has said video games help him as quarterback.
Former Stanford University kicker Derek Belch developed StriVR as a master’s thesis in the school’s VR lab, and brought the company out earlier this year after the technology was credited with helping the school turn around its football season.
Belch’s system boasts some eye-popping stats. Like how Kevin Hogan went from completing 64 percent of his passes up to 76 percent after the Stanford quarterback started using the headset for about 20 minutes before games. Stanford also went from averaging 24 points a game to 38 in those final three games since Cardinal was introduced. .
Besides Stanford, StriVR previously signed deals with five collegiate football programs: Arkansas, Clemson, Vanderbilt, Auburn and Dartmouth.
The Cowboys have added a new room for the system at their Valley Ranch facility. During the last two weeks the Cowboys have had a stationary camera behind the line of scrimmage to give a 360-degree view of the plays, complete with sound, ESPN reports.
Quarterbacks, as well as linebackers or safeties, will wear a virtual-reality headset that will adjust the video in the room to what the player is looking at and allow the coaches to see if they are making the proper reads or checks during each play. It will also help the backups get views of plays they would not have experienced.
As of now the Cowboys are the only NFL team using StriVR but other teams, like the Atlanta Falcons, are considering adding the system.