Soccer—or football if you’re from anywhere else but the U.S.—is the most popular sport in the world. But what if it could be better? I mean…I’m not talking so much in the sense of fast-paced athletic play than I am grown up men making idiots of themselves with VR headsets. I’d watch that.
A Norwegian television show decided to conduct a little experiment to see what soccer would be like if players had to wear VR headsets that were all live streaming a birds-eye view of the game. The results are hilarious. It’s like if humanity survived the zombie apocalypse, and we just forced zombies to play soccer for our amusement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRubBJglrVI
The video was originally posted on Reddit with some commenters picking out that the players were actually using VR headsets often used for first-person views of RC planes. This particular TV show also has a history of subjecting soccer players to all kinds of weirdness, including electric shock and inflatable bouncy balls.
Now all I can think about is how great others sports would be with some VR thrown into the mix. [Reddit]
Update: So some killjoy killed this VR soccer delight on Youtube. Luckily, you can still enjoy people getting tased while playing soccer. Not a terrible substitute, really.
