UCF football team is trading jersey numbers for QR codes

This spring season, the College of Central Florida’s (UCF) soccer workforce will don QR codes as an alternative of numbers on the again of their jerseys (by way of SportsLogos.web). The workforce confirmed off their new garb on Twitter, sporting giant, customized QR codes beneath their final names that you could scan to entry gamers’ biographies on UCF’s web site.

In a video posted by UCF coach Gus Malzahn (who additionally has a QR code stamped on his workforce polo shirt) you may see how precisely the characteristic really works. Judging by the video, it appears to be like like UCF will show gamers’ QR codes on its residence stadium’s jumbotron as nicely.

Final yr, the UCF Knights stored the numbers on the again of their jerseys however swapped their last names for Twitter handles. It’s in all probability greatest that the workforce stored their final names this time round, as I might see the way it could be irritating for followers to seek for a participant’s Twitter deal with — or jersey quantity — simply to search out out their full identify (if it isn’t already of their deal with).

It’s possible you’ll not affiliate fashionable expertise with a workforce named after a medieval soldier, however it’s definitely a inventive use of the QR code and a intelligent solution to promote gamers. I’m simply unsure how nicely it should work whenever you’re really watching one among their video games, although.

In the event you’re within the stands, are you presupposed to zoom in extraordinarily far in your cellphone whereas trying to trace a QR code that’s hooked up to a participant sprinting throughout a area? And for those who’re watching on TV, will you simply have to attend for a close-up? That’s in all probability why UCF additionally determined to place QR codes on its jumbotron, however who is aware of if different stadiums will show the codes throughout away video games.