This is forward, outside the box thinking. Great stuff!!
I could see baseball teams using this to monitor fatigue from jet lag or just generally for guys who like to "grind it out" and play every day.
Evaluating Player Fatigue with Eye Sync -:
"With playoffs looming, the Golden State Warriors are taking a proactive approach to diagnosing exhaustion and fatigue in their athletes. To do so, they are utilizing a tool that is primarily used to detect concussions.
The device is called Eye-Sync, and it’s from SyncThink. Warriors’ Assistant General Manager, Kirk Lacob, and Head of Sports Medicine, Chelsea Lane, teamed up to implement the tool after testing it out themselves. Designed as a virtual reality headset, Eye-Sync uses a 60-second eye-tracking test to detect any visual impairments. For this reason, it is often used to assess concussion symptoms.
However, it’s also able to determine players’ fatigue levels, Using Eye-Sync, Golden State now performs regular screenings on their players to detect for signs of accumulated fatigue, in addition to concussion symptoms.
Lacob views this as an “added bonus” and “very valuable” in preparing for the postseason, according to article from SportTechie.
“What our technology is doing is measuring [the players’ eye movement] and saying, ‘Oh yeah, they’ve improved,’” said Lacob. “Or ‘They’re back in a normal range where their eye signatures have been minimized into a range that tells us that the brain is optimized for performance now and that the effect of fatigue is no longer there.’
“That’ll help us understand what we need to do to reduce stress and fatigue on players over the last month [of the season], and that could affect our ability to push forward or scale back a little bit because our ultimate goal is to be fresh for the playoffs,” Lacob continued."
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