Dutch Football Club to use VR and game data to recreate previous matches

With sports teams consistently striving to become the most innovative in the world, AZ Alkmaar has signed a long-term deal with Beyond Sports to create virtual reality simulations for their practices sessions based on previous match data.

Beyond Sports will look at the match data for AZ Alkmaar and use their analytical tools to recreate the previous match in order for players to improve their decision making based off each player’s perspective. It will use representations through Virtual Reality engine Oculus Rift.

AZ Alkmaar’s plan is to utilize this revolutionary technology for their youth programs with the hope that each youth player will evaluate their play and improve their decision making for future matches. This will be vital for the younger players as they are still learning about proper decision making.

Virtual Reality has very much become the buzz word of the past 12 months with sports teams endeavouring to use VR to the absolute maximum to not only assist their players but also to help and further engagement with fans. These kind of campaigns include the New York Jets offering fans the chance to experience various access only players have like running out on the field as well as the NBA’s Golden State Warriors televising their season opening game in VR.

The video below shows how each player will have its match performance recreated in order to analyze their strengths and weaknesses to ensure improvement for the next match.

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