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St. Xavier University, the best in you. All right, I'm here with Andrew Hawkins and Troy Jones from Status Pro.

Why don't you guys start off just by telling me about Status Pro how you guys got the idea and what you hope to achieve?

Yeah, so Status Pro is the sports technology and gaming company.

When we first started off, we were trying to help athletes simulate reps virtually outside

of practice and games.

So imagine yourself practicing against halagam's and on the field, seeing what you're

going to see you on Sunday, seeing what you're seeing out in practice.

We built that technology and NFL teams started using it.

Then what we realized is players

they didn't want to take it off and they were having fun. So then Hawke and I got together and said,

well, what does it look like to make this into a video game? And actually put fans in the

shoes of their favorite players. And then from there, after negotiating with the league and the

PA, we got the rights and built NFL Pro Era, which is the first ever an NFL VR game, first simulation game in VR in sports and Hister in VR.

He nailed it. He noted, yeah. I mean, it was like how do we bring an experience for the fans to finally feel what it's like to be on the field, right?

That kind of last layer of access that fans don't have. Right. How do I see the game and experience it the way that the NFL players do? That's what we

set out to do. And so if you play the game, you're the quarterback of your favorite team and you make

the throws, you have to scramble, you have to get to the first downs, you have to get to the

playoffs. And it's been a very rewarding experience. And experience and you know we're one of the fastest selling

titles in in VR history so that was really cool all right you mentioned scrambling we're going to

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