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21May/20Off

Are Virtual Reality Tickets The Answer For Watching Michigan Games This Fall?

https---images.saymedia-content.com-.image-MTcwMjI5MTU4ODU1NTgyOTQ0-usatsi_13860584“You can test both teams,” Harbaugh said. “You can test the officials and everybody. Can you test 100,000 fans coming into a stadium? Probably not. Probably not without a vaccine you probably couldn’t do that. So to answer your question, heck yeah I’d be comfortable coaching a game without any fans. If the choice were play in front of no fans or not play, then I would choose play in front of no fans. And I think darn near every guy on our team, that is the way they feel about it.”

...And once college football fans are allowed back on campus each Saturday, who is to say that the school cannot continue to sell tickets in this fashion to help recoup revenue? Michigan football could be the first school to implement a virtual reality viewing option for fans that have difficulty making it to Ann Arbor for games, potentially opening up the possibility for far more than 110,000 fans to watch a game each week.

See the full story here: https://www.si.com/college/michigan/football/michigan-football-are-virtual-reality-tickets-the-answer-for-watching-games-this-fall

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