There’s considerable discussion regarding how football players’ brains are affected by minor, repetitive collisions that occur throughout a game, not just from the hits that result in concussions. But a new study out of Indiana University suggests that football players’ brain activity may appear altered because of brain reorganization that occurs when mastering hand-eye coordinations […]
Six months after officially opening, and the Mark Cuban Center for Sports Media and Technology at Indiana University has its first virtual reality game, which was led by senior Catherine Onofrey. Onofrey, who is an intern with the Cuban Center, first became interested in virtual reality after taking a 300 level 3D Computer Graphics class in […]
The Indiana Hoosiers will attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the largest collective virtual reality experience at the men’s basketball game against Northwestern on Saturday. The team is distributing 2,000 adidas VR headsets to students. Students who are sitting in the Crimson Guard GA section and the south bleachers will receive the headsets […]
Indiana University will be using SyncThink’s medical device, EYE-SYNC, for a study on lower-impact sub-concussive head blows. The study will be conducted by assistant professor Keisuke Kawata, who has been working on sub-concussion studies and has drawn attention in the linkage between eye movement and repetitive impacts in football players. “Detection of subclinical neural impairments […]
Indiana University Athletics will become a national leader in 3D broadcast and technology with its first of its kind video, broadcasting and technology center for its students. All thanks to a donation of $5 million from 1981 alumni, Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and several other businesses. The Mark Cuban Center for Sports […]