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If you are a pro athlete it allows you to practice your swing or your serve.



True, but pro athletes have already had other proprietary technology for the past year. Oculus might not even be the best solution currently for athletic performance. A cool read on Stanford Football's use of Virtual Reality in practice settings [0]

[0]: http://www.mercurynews.com/49ers/ci_28784441/virtual-reality...


Sounds silly, but I know the Minnesota Vikings (an NFL team) used a VR setup for some practice this year, to help increase situational awareness.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/13328295/minnesota-vikings...


QB training is very compelling.


If you're a pro athlete you're going to use the real thing.


VR is the real thing. You still throw the football. You just get to see exactly what you did, and how it compares with the throws before and after. And you can get things like realtime audio feedback while you move to give you information about where your body is relative to where you're trying to train to. The possibilities are infinite.


No, you're going to do both. Football players already spend tons of time watching film. This is an extension of that.




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