As the Boston Globe reports, the company
Quick Hit is hoping its no - frills
football video game can compete with the dazzling graphics and All - Star names featured in Electronic Arts's wildly successful Madden NFL video games.
However, researchers who have collected impact sensor data for years, including Dr. Stefan Duma, who runs the biomedical engineering department at Virginia Tech and helped develop the STAR helmet rating system, were
quick to say that the league was being too careful, and that, while not perfect, even with a 10 to 20 percent error rate, the sensors were valuable and give reasonable data that is useful, not only in
football, but in analyzing head
hits in sports like soccer and hockey.