Gallaudet and dead/HoH players once again breed innovation for football. For those that don’t know, they developed the first huddle since opposing teams were learning ASL to see what plays they were calling.
While awesome and a massive win for our hearing impaired friends. I don’t like this for two reasons. 1: We can’t have shaded visors because you can’t see the eyes but apparently this is ok? 2: I love how a college crowd can literally shake a stadium, this will remove or at least lessen that impact.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — AT&T and Gallaudet University have developed a football helmet for players who are deaf or hard of hearing and communicate using American Sign Language.
The company and Washington-based school for students who are deaf or hard of hearing unveiled the new technology Thursday.
It allows a coach to call a play on a tablet from the sideline that then shows up visually on a small display screen inside the quarterback’s helmet.
Gallaudet, which competes in Division III, was cleared by the NCAA to use the helmet in its game on Saturday at home against Hilbert.
The final product is the result of almost two years of communication between the team and AT&T, which came up with the concept as a way to close the inclusion gap for the Deaf community with its 5G network.
“We came up with ideas on how to make this helmet more effective (and) we’d interact with (players and coaches),” said Corey Anthony, AT&T senior VP of networking engineering and operations.
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