Hi-Tech for the QB

[Doomsday]

Virtual reality.

The Dallas Cowboys Will Soon Train Their Quarterbacks in Virtual Reality | Re/code

It’s been 20 years since the Dallas Cowboys won a Super Bowl — but maybe some cutting-edge technology will help them turn things around.

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, according to a source familiar with the deal. After donning the headset, players 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, looking in any direction.

Currently, StriVR’s technology is not interactive, but instead aims to teach quarterbacks decision-making skills in the context of a real play. It also aims to make it easier to give both starters and backup quarterbacks more opportunities to learn without needing the whole team on the field.

Former Stanford University kicker Derek Belch developed StriVR as a master’s thesis in the school’s VR lab, and spun the company out earlier this year after the technology was credited with helping the school turn around its football season.

After Stanford, which continues to use the technology, StriVR previously signed deals with five collegiate football programs: Arkansas, Clemson, Vanderbilt, Auburn and Dartmouth.

 

[Omegasupreme]

Snake oil and gorilla dust! And yet there are teams, year after year who are winning Super Bowls because the team follows the coach who has the track record to will his team to win while out coaching the other teams efforts.

Not because the locker room is a good hearted group of guys, not because everyone is following mantras and training camp themes, and certainly not because the talent comes from a private Baptist college or from Norvs tutelage, not because you stand around Mike Krzyzewski, or have I-pads before any other team in the league.

It's all a bunch of nonessential ornaments that unnecessarily decorate what used to be simply playing football against an opponent with the intent to outscore them on offense and attack them on defense.

You guys may have Super Bowls, but we got drones, process and virtual reality.

 

[ThoughtExperiment]

You guys may have Super Bowls, but we got drones, process and virtual reality.

And Princeton speeches! You can never forget the speeches, man. They're the true measure of a coach.

Seriously, the worship that speech is generating is sickening. "You're the leader, lead." Except for when you throw the QB saving your ass week after week under the bus after a heartbreaking loss.