Watch for Surface Pro 3 NFL Season

As the season kicks off this year, you’ll once again have the chance to see how our unique technology partnership with the NFL is continuing to change the game. Surface was, of course, part of the game last season. You likely saw players and coaches picking up the Surface Pro 2 devices in the bright blue rugged cases to review plays during games. While every Surface Pro device can run virtually any desktop application as well as any app from the Windows Store, they can also be managed and deployed for a single purpose. In the case of the NFL these devices ran one proprietary application – the Sideline Viewing system. This customized app allowed players and coaches to review and markup color still images rather than rely on the printed black and white photos used in the past, allowing them to make on-field adjustments much faster than they could with the paper system. It was a great step towards using technology to review plays and make decisions in real time.

This year, you’ll see new Surface Pro3s in action on the sidelines and they are bigger, lighter and brighter than ever before. They will of course still perform in all the rigors of the NFL environment Like heat, cold and rain, but we’ve added some new features to the application is response to feedback we received last year.

Surface Pro 3 with the Surface Sideline viewing system (SVS) will offer up the following new features;

*. The Surface Pen can now mark-up plays in four different colors.

*. Marked-up plays can be saved to individual profiles for easy reference allowing coaches and players to access their individual notes from any Surface.

*. Addition of a whiteboard for sketching players.

*. Increased daylight readability thanks to the amazing Surface Pro 3 screen which is brighter and has more contrast.

*. Access to the entire games play series for quick reference of the entire game.

In addition to the utilizing Surface on the Sidelines on the game day, NFL teams are also integrating Surface devices throughout many facets of their business and Football operations. The beneath the Surface video series which launched this morning takes a deeper look at how surface is impacting the game for NFL organizations – from players, to coaches, to front office, to scouts, to IT personnel and more.