VICIS, a Seattle-based technology company, is partnering with Oakley to beef up its innovative football helmets. Together they have created and launched the VICIS EDGE Shield, an optics system designed to complement the football player’s wide field of view. The shield has been developed specifically for the VICIS ZERO1, a helmet that placed first among […]
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin is looking to help VICIS, the Seattle-based technology company poised to have its helmet make an impact in the NFL, change and perhaps save the game of football. Baldwin invested in the company and is promoting it as well, telling CBS Sports Radio that he has an 11-year-old cousin […]
A technology designed to protect athletes from traumatic brain injuries has received a round of funding that will help get its retrofitted helmets onto fields faster. A syndicate of angelMD members, among an investment group focused on the future of healthcare, invested an undisclosed amount in Windpact, a maker of sports helmet technology that aims […]
For the upcoming NFL and college football season, fans could see players sporting a new helmet on the field, thanks to VICIS. A Seattle-based startup helmet manufacturer founded in 2013, VICIS was recently named the No. 1 helmet as part of a NFL/NFLPA laboratory performance testing evaluation. Its VICIS ZERO1 received top honors among 33 total […]
NEW YORK — Seattle-based football helmet technology company Vicis had a table set up last month at the New York Marriott Marquis. The Times Square hotel was the place to be as some of the most powerful people in college sports attended the Learfield Intercollegiate Athletics Forum. The Vicis helmet was displayed just outside the […]