Virtual Reality Companies Are Changing How Athletes See Practice
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He looks down at the football in front of him and visualizes a line extending to the white poles 40 yards ahead. Defensive players shake out their quads and bend into squats in front of him, their hamstrings screaming from the second practice of the day. The holder crouches, pats the grass with two fingers — the “go ahead.” Toner wiggles his right shoulder and turns his right wrist a few times, as he always does before field goal attempts. This is Stanford’s virtual reality training room: a little glass box above the locker room where a virtual reality headset — a foamy black box flanked by three limp elastic headbands — dangles midair, suspended by a thick black cord. He can pivot 180 degrees and watch Coach David Shaw making clipboard tallies, or look straight ahead and count a lineman’s eyelashes.
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