Stanford University’s athletic department is utilizing virtual reality across a number of sports in an effort to enhance athletic performance and engage with fans.
Most notably, Stanford’s fencing team made an interactive video that features a fencer fighting the viewer. In it, a virtual reality rig is set up facing the fencer as he or she is lunging away at you — the color changing as the viewer is hit by the saber.
“Probably my biggest regret from this video is that I said, ‘Don’t worry about hitting the camera,’” Stanford Athletics director of video services Heath Trabue said last month at the SVG College Sports Summit.