Chris Kluwe: How 60 of that.

Unfortunately, it's not NFL practice

footage because the NFL thinks emergent
augmented reality will technology is what happens when a
change sports and build submarine surfaces, but (Laughter)
we do what we can.
empathy. 65
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What do augmented reality and
professional football have to do with So let's pull up some video.
empathy? And what is the air speed
velocity of an unladen swallow? Now 70 2:11
10 unfortunately, I'm only going to
answer one of those questions today, so (Video) Chris Kluwe: Go. Ugh, getting
please, try and contain your tackled sucks. Hold on, let's get a little
disappointment. closer. All right, ready? Go!
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When most people think about augmented Chris Kluwe: So as you can see, small
reality, they think about "Minority Report" taste of what it's like to get tackled on the
and Tom Cruise waving his hands in the 80 football field from the perspective of the
20 air, but augmented reality is not science
tacklee. Now, you may have noticed there
fiction. Augmented reality is something are some people missing there: the rest of
that will happen in our lifetime, and it will the team. We have some video of
happen because we have the tools to that courtesy of the University of
make it happen, and people need to be 85 Washington.
25 aware of that, because augmented reality
will change our lives just as much as the 2:43
Internet and the cell phone.
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Now how do we get to augmented
reality? Step one is the step I'm wearing CK: So again, this takes you a little bit
right now, Google Glass. I'm sure many of closer to what it's like to be on that
you are familiar with Google Glass. What 95 field, but this is nowhere what it's like to be
35 you may not be familiar with is that Google on the NFL.
Glass is a device that will allow you to see
what I see. It will allow you to experience 3:03
what it is like to be a professional athlete
on the field. Right now, the only way you 100 Fans want that experience. Fans want to
40 can be on the field is for me to try and be on that field. They want to be their
describe it to you. I have to use words. I favorite players, and they've already talked
have to create a framework that you then to me on YouTube, they've talked to me
fill in with your imagination. With Google on Twitter, saying, "Hey, can you get this
Glass, we can put that underneath a 105 on a quarterback? Can you get this on a
45 helmet, and we can get a sense of what running back? We want that experience."
it's like to be running down the field at 100
miles an hour, your blood pounding in your 3:17
ears. You can get a sense of what it's
like to have a 250-pound man sprinting at 110 Well, once we have that experience with
50 you trying to decapitate you with every GoPro and Google Glass, how do we
ounce of his being. And I've been on the make it more immersive? How do we take
receiving end of that, and it doesn't feel that next step? Well, we take that step by
very good. going to something called the Oculus
115 Rift, which I'm sure many of you are also
55 1:50 familiar with. The Oculus Rift has been
described as one of the most realistic
Now, I have some footage to show you of virtual reality devices ever created, and
what it's like to wear Google Glass that is not empty hype. I'm going to show
underneath the helmet to give you a taste
 you why that is not empty hype with this
video. (Video) Man: Oh! Oh! No! No! No! I In 2023, imagine you're a player walking
don't want to play anymore! No! Oh my back to the huddle, and you have your
God! Aaaah! next play displayed right in front of your
5 65 face on your clear plastic visor that you
3:56 already wear right now. No more having to
worry about forgetting plays. No more
CK: So that is the experience of a man on worrying about having to memorize your
a roller coaster in fear of his life. What do playbook. You just go out and react. And
10 you think that fan's experience is going to 70 coaches really want this, because missed
be when we take the video footage of an assignments lose you games, and
Adrian Peterson bursting through the coaches hate losing games. Losing games
line, shedding a tackler with a stiff- gets you fired as a coach. They don't want
arm before sprinting in for a that.
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experience is going to be when he's 5:57
Messi sprinting down the pitch putting the
ball in the back of the net, or Federer But augmented reality is not just an
serving in Wimbledon? What do you think enhanced playbook. Augmented reality is
20 his experience is going to be when he is 80 also a way to take all that data and use it
going down the side of a mountain at over in real time to enhance how you play the
70 miles an hour as an Olympic downhill game. What would that be like? Well, a
skier? I think adult diaper sales may very simple setup would be a camera on
surge. (Laughter) each corner of the stadium looking
25 85 down, giving you a bird's-eye view of all
4:37 the people down there. You also have
information from helmet sensors and
But this is not yet augmented reality. This accelerometers, technology that's being
is only virtual reality, V.R. How do we get worked on right now. You take all that
30 to augmented reality, A.R.? We get to 90 information, and you stream it to your
augmented reality when coaches and players. The good teams stream it in a
managers and owners look at this way that the players can use. The bad
information streaming in that people want ones have information overload. That
to see, and they say, "How do we use this determines good teams from bad. And
35 to make our teams better? How do we use 95 now, your I.T. department is just as
this to win games?" Because teams important as your scouting
always use technology to win department, and data-mining is not for
games. They like winning. It makes them nerds anymore. It's also for jocks. Who
money. knew?
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So a brief history of technology in the What would that look like on the
NFL. In 1965, the Baltimore Colts put a field? Well, imagine you're the
45 wristband on their quarterback to allow 105 quarterback. You take the snap and you
him to call plays quicker. They ended up drop back. You're scanning downfield for
winning a Super Bowl that year. Other an open receiver. All of a sudden, a bright
teams followed suit. More people watched flash on the left side of your visor lets you
the game because it was more exciting. It know, blind side linebacker is blitzing
50 was faster. 110 in. Normally, you wouldn't be able to see
him, but the augmented reality system lets
5:17 you know. You step up into the
pocket. Another flash alerts you to an
In 1994, the NFL put helmet radios into the open receiver. You throw the ball, but
55 helmets of the quarterbacks, and later the 115 you're hit right as you throw. The ball
defense. More people watched games comes off track. You don't know where it's
because it was faster. It was more going to land. However, on the receiver's
entertaining. visor, he sees a patch of grass light
up, and he knows to readjust. He goes,
60 5:28 120 catches the ball, sprints in,
 touchdown. Crowd goes wild, and the fans
are with him every step of the
way, watching from every perspective.

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Now this is something that will

create massive excitement in the game. It
will make tons of people watch, because
10 people want this experience. Fans want to
be on the field. They want to be their
favorite player. Augmented reality will be a
part of sports, because it's too profitable
not to.
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But the question I ask you is, is that's all

that we're content to use augmented
20 reality for? Are we going to use it solely for
our panem, our circenses, our
entertainment as normal? Because I
believe that we can use augmented
reality for something more. I believe we
25 can use augmented reality as a way to
foster more empathy within the human
species itself, by literally showing
someone what it looks like to walk a mile
in another person's shoes. We know what
30 this technology is worth to sports
leagues. It's worth revenue, to the tune of
billions of dollars a year. But what is this
technology worth to a teacher in a
classroom trying to show a bully just how
35 harmful his actions are from the
perspective of the victim? What is this
technology worth to a gay Ugandan or
Russian trying to show the world what it's
like living under persecution? What is this
40 technology worth to a Commander
Hadfield or a Neil deGrasse Tyson trying
to inspire a generation of children to think
more about space and science instead of
quarterly reports and Kardashians?
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Ladies and gentlemen, augmented

reality is coming. The questions we ask,
50 the choices we make, and the challenges
we face are, as always, up to us.

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55 Thank you.

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