Indie VR studio REZZIL today announced it’s bringing REZZIL PLAYER, the VR sports training game, to PSVR 2 soon.
Initially launched on Quest in 2021 and later brought to SteamVR headsets in 2022, Rezzil Player offers up a growing collection of sports training games that aim to improve performance and reaction times across sports like football, soccer, and basketball. The immersive training game now boasts over 160 levels and 40 items of sports kit for avatars.
The studio announced Rezzil Player is officially coming to PSVR 2 during its launch window, which PlayStation says extends into March.
The studio says the PSVR 2 version is slated to use the next-gen headset’s advanced features, including haptic feedback to feel the impact of a ball on their head, and eye-tracking for foveated rendering.
“We are thrilled to announce the release of REZZIL PLAYER on PlayStation VR 2,” said Gareth Thatcher, Director at Rezzil. “Combining our virtual and physical sports training games with the power of PlayStation 5 is something we are proud of and excited to bring to a new audience.”
Rezzil Player is set to launch on PSVR 2 for $10 “within the official launch window,” the studio says, which PlayStation has defined as starting at the headset’s launch on February 22nd leading into March.
We’ll keep our eyes peeled for a more precise launch date and PlayStation Store links in the coming weeks.
Rezzil Player 22 brought football training to Oculus Quest over the summer, enabling fans of the beautiful game to train like the pros – where headers are concerned – across a selection of scenarios. Today, the Rezzil team has announced the first major expansion to the title, adding in American Football training.
The new selection of drills are based around the Quarterback position, giving players the chance to improve their depth- and distance-perception as well as their situational awareness. Just like Rezzil did with its original football training drills, these new Field General drills have been created with help from current and ex-professional quarterback’s.
“We’re really excited to finally bring such a high standard of football training to the Quest,” said Christian Barsanti, US Operations Director. “We’ve worked with an incredible roster of high calibre coaches and players to get here and we’re proud that anyone can now get more reps in, anywhere, for such a small amount of money. We hope we’re opening the door to a whole world of undiscovered talent whilst giving those at the top the chance to perfect their craft.”
The update isn’t purely focused on American football either. Players will also find an expansion to the Blokz mode with new challenges to face, whilst the Headers medal score has been rebalanced, a music selection and shuffle option is now available, alongside a number of bug fixes.
Rezzil Player 22
Since the launch of Rezzil Player 22 the development team has added DLC packs offering more official customisation options, and more Headers mode challenges.
Rezzil Player 22 features two core heading drills Control and Shooting to get players started but it’s not all about football. There are three other fitness modes, Reaction Wall helps speed up those response times by hitting blinking lights, Hoops Vision is a rhythm action mini-game based on basketball and Blokz is a bat and ball mini-game all about smashing as many blocks as possible.
As further updates are added to Rezzil Player 22, VRFocus will let you know.
There’s a strong selection of virtual reality (VR) titles arriving this week across multiple platforms. Today, Rezzil Player 22 has launched for Oculus Quest and if you’re into your football then it’s worth a look. To celebrate the launch VRFocus has been given a bunch of codes to giveaway, so you could improve your football skills for free!
Rezzil Player 22‘s core gameplay focuses on coordination and mastering the tricky art of heading balls into the back of the net. In the Training mode, “Control” is all about precision, heading balls back into a selection of rings, the difficulty ramping up as the rings get smaller and when colour matching is introduced. The “Shooting” drill sticks you in front of an actual goal where you have to beat both defends and the keeper whilst aiming for particular areas of the goal.
It isn’t all football though. Rezzil Player 22 offers a selection of more fitness-oriented mini-games like Reaction Wall and Hoops Vision. The former is a wall of lights that you have to hit as quickly as possible, hopefully improving your reaction times. Hoops Vision is a basketball-themed rhythm action experience with five songs to complete.
Rounding out the content lineup is a mini-game called Bloks and some official customisation options. Bloks is a bat and ball game all about destroying as many block towers as possible. And because developer REZZIL creates a pro training app for football clubs you’ll find official Adidas kits available, so you can switch up your gloves, football and even the stadium designs.
So onto the competition. VRFocus has several Oculus Quest codes for Rezzil Player 22 to giveaway. There are multiple ways to enter the giveaway with the standard prize draw entry rules applying: Follow us (or already be following us) on Twitter (@VRFocus) or alternatively, visit our Facebook page or YouTube channel to get an entry for each. The competition will be open until 11.59 pm BST on Thursday, 12th August 2021. The draw will be made shortly thereafter. Best of luck.
Love a spot of Sunday football but wish your skills were a bit better, especially where heading balls is concerned? Well look no further than Rezzil Player 22, part football trainer and part exercise app, the title is set to launch tomorrow for Oculus Quest owners.
Rezzil Player 22 will offer various gameplay modes designed to improve your coordination as well as your physical fitness, all designed by virtual reality (VR) developer REZZIL which builds training software for some of the world’s biggest clubs. There are two core heading drills available at launch Control and Shooting, the former all about heading balls back through rings whilst the latter puts you in front of a goal to knock balls on pitch players and the keeper.
Additionally, the other fitness modes include Reaction Wall to help speed up those response times by hitting blinking lights, whilst Hoops Vision is a rhythm action mini-game based on basketball. Finally, there’s Bloks a bat and ball mini-game all about smashing as many blocks as possible.
On top of all the gameplay modes, Rezzil Player 22 will feature plenty of official football customisation options thanks to partnerships with companies like Adidas. You’ll be able to mix and match gloves, balls and other options, perfect for all die-hard football fans.
Rezzil Player 22
Post-launch, Rezzil Player 22 will see new DLC content added with two further drills, Clearing and Passing, created alongside pro clubs, coaches and players. Plus a new mini-game in the form of Rayderz, providing 30 levels of fitness/combat action in deep space.
Previewing Rezzil Player 22 last month VRFocus found that: “Rezzil Player 22 may lean on its footballing heritage to give it a sense of place in VR but it most definitely wants to be seen as an all-encompassing fitness app at the moment.”
Rezzil Player 22 will be available from 10th August 2021 retailing for $14.99 USD. For continued updates on the latest Oculus Quest titles, keep reading VRFocus.
When it comes to football in virtual reality (VR), British studio Rezzil is very well acquainted with the subject as its core software is used by some of the biggest clubs in the world to help train their players. This knowledge has already been brought into the home for PC VR with Rezzil Indexand soon Oculus Quest players will get a foot (head) in with Rezzil Player 22, a title that’s part trainer, part fitness app.
Rezzil Player 22
Due to hardware limitations, Rezzil Player 22 is a very different beast from its forebears. Mainly because the Oculus Quest can’t track your feet, instead the videogame concentrates on all the upper body fitness and skills footballers need. That means lots of headers, improving reaction times, and upping that fitness level to hopefully enhance your stamina.
While you might not be able to kick a virtual football in your living room being able to head a ball into the back of a net is still a vital skill. Easily proven when trying the two heading modes Rezzil Player 22 has available, Control and Shooting. These provide the core training functionality whereby you’re given instruction on how to properly head a ball – there is a science to this – using a number of factors including using those arms of yours.
Both are fairly self-explanatory, Control tasking you with knocking the balls back through rings. These start off large and are fairly easy to hit, racking up enough points to move on. Subsequent levels adding smaller and more abundant rings. Whereas the Shooting mode actually puts you in front of a goal to try and score, designating areas like those tricky top corners to score more points. Shooting is by far the most enjoyable of the two modes as you’re on a pitch, thus making it feel far more realistic even if the models have that air of Subbuteo about them.
And that’s when the fun really starts, trying to head a ball not just past a goalie but actual moving players. Ok, so it’s not exactly VR FIFA but when it’s simulating a corner kick and you’re trying to head the ball into the top left corner of the goal those concentration levels certainly shoot up! And you know what, an hour into playing Rezzil Player 22 there was a noticeable difference in accuracy. Not pro football levels mind you but enough that getting through some of the training levels became easier with higher points, for an old fat bloke that was quite something.
There are two other areas within the training area, Reaction Wall and Hoops Vision. Reaction Wall is a feature becoming popular in fitness apps, appearing in the likes of FitXRand REAKT Performance Trainer. Like a kitten chasing a laser, the Reaction Wall is all about speed, hitting those red lights as fast as possible to get through as many as possible. Not too unusual for this type of videogame, completely unexpected was Hoops Vision, a rhythm action segment.
Styled around basketball, Hoops Vision is energetic yet feels more laid back than the rest as it doesn’t need the sheer speed or accuracy found elsewhere. Don’t expect some Beat Saber killer either as there are just five tracks where you have to match the ball in your hands to the hoops coming at you. It’s more of a nice add-on – a mini-game if you will – to Rezzil Player 22’s core training modes.
But that’s not all, as Rezzil has one final mode to keep you busy in a section simply labelled “Games”. Called Bloks, this is a pseudo tennis/squash mashup where you have to use a racket to smash balls into towers of blocks. Not out of place on a TV gameshow, like all the gameplay modes Bloks challenges you to get onto the global leaderboards for that sense of competition, vital in a sporting tile such as this.
Rezzil Player 22 may lean on its footballing heritage to give it a sense of place in VR but it most definitely wants to be seen as an all-encompassing fitness app at the moment. However, this being a pre-release play through there are a lot more football-related additions coming to the final release which should interest fans of the sport. Clearing and Passing DLC packs are already planned and because Rezzil has official ties to brands such as Adidas, there’s going to be plenty of football/glove customisation options available. If you love the beautiful game then keep an eye out for Rezzil Player 22 when it arrives this summer for Oculus Quest.
Rezzil, a UK-based VR sports training and analytics startup, announced that its secured an investment round of over £2 million (~$2.75 million), which will be used to promote its new consumer-focused sports training platform, Player 22.
Rezzil’s investors include soccer professionals Thierry Henry, Gary Neville, Vincent Kompany, Michail Antonio, Tyrone Mings, and Anthony Watson. According to Crunchbasedata, this brings the Manchester-based company’s overall investment to £3.8 million (~$5.25 million).
Founded in 2017, Rezzil produces tools for post-match analysis, virtual training and rehabilitation with the ability to monitor and track player recovery. Now the company is getting ready to pitch its pro-focused tech to consumers with Player 22, an at-home training app compatible with Oculus Quest. Like its enterprise training tech, it was designed and tested by UEFA pro licensed coaches.
“Rezzil is at the forefront of the virtual reality revolution and enables people to experience sport like never before and athletes to train, crucially, without adding load,” investor and former English Premiere League player Gary Neville says. “This is a key consideration for managers that want to maintain the peak physical condition of their players, to ensure that they can perform to their optimum, on the pitch.”
When it launches on Quest July 29th, Player 22 will offer up a number of sport-based games designed to improve cognitive performance, concentration, reaction times, coordination and control. You can wishlist it on Quest here.
Due out later this summer for Oculus Quest is the football-inspired fitness title Rezzil Player 22, from British virtual reality (VR) specialist Rezzil. Today, the studio has announced the completion of a new £2 million GBP funding round which saw some big names from the footballing world take part.
Rezzil Player 22
The round saw high profile investors including Thierry Henry, Gary Neville, Vincent Kompany, Michail Antonio, Tyrone Mings and Anthony Watson take part, all because they see VR as an evolution in training. The company started out with Rezzil Elite – previously know as Rezzil Player 21 – designed as a training and analysis tool for professional football clubs. You can find a free version of this called Rezzil Index on Steam for Valve Index and HTC Vive, with Vive Trackers required to track your feet.
Rezzil Player 22 for Oculus Quest will be even more consumer-focused, providing a range of activities all designed and tested by UEFA pro licensed coaches to get those energy levels up. As the headset can’t track your feet the core modes focus on improving heading skills so you can accurately nut one into the back of the net. Other modes also feature basketball and tennis-inspired drills.
“As a father, I can see the appeal of Rezzil for children and it’s exciting as a parent because the combination of e-sport and traditional sport means they’re being healthy and active when they’re playing as opposed to a sedentary game,” says Thierry Henry in a statement. “I’ve been involved in football for many years but I honestly believe Rezzil is one of the most promising technologies to enter the sport. In sport we’re always looking for an edge over the competition and Rezzil provides just that. There are so many applications, from training and rehabilitation, it was an easy decision for me to get involved.”
Rezzil Player 22
As a training aid, it can be used anywhere, which allows players of all levels, who may not otherwise have access to a pitch or others to work with, to train in their own time, at their own pace. There is so much potential for Rezzil, both within elite sport and as a consumer product and it aligned perfectly with my vision of having investments that I’m passionate about,” Neville adds.
As Rezzil continues to expand its VR training solutions and when it reveals the launch date for Rezzil Player 22,VRFocus will keep you updated.
It’s been football fever this month in Europe with the Euro 2020 event about to conclude on Sunday with an epic final featuring Italy and England. If you love the beautiful game and think you’re headers are the stuff of legend then those skills can be put to the test later this summer. REZZIL, the developer behind pro training virtual reality (VR) software Rezzil Player 21 has announced a new project exclusively for Oculus Quest, Rezzil Player 22.
While Rezzil Player 21 utilises Vive Trackers to help improve a players football skills, Rezzil Player 22 has had to take a different approach, concentrating on headers alongside other elements such as reaction times. There will be three modes components to the videogame Headers, Hoops Vision and Reaction Wall. Headers is fairly self-explanatory with a range of drills allowing players to practice their accuracy heading balls into a goal.
Hoops Vision is a basketball, rhythm-action mashup all about movement and coordination. Reaction Wall is a test of speed, hitting illuminated lights as quickly as possible. In addition to these three, Rezzle Player 22 will also include Rezzil Blokz, a racket game where you have to smash towering blocks as quickly as possible. All the modes will be supported by leaderboards plus there’s a huge range of customisation options available, with official kit from the likes of Adidas.
“Rezzil Player 22 is Harder, Faster, Stronger and Smarter than anything we’ve created before!” Said Adam Dickinson, Development Director at REZZIL. “Having refined the REZZIL experience over the last four years, we have built a world-leading Sport and VR experience. For Quest users, we have tapped into our console and gaming heritage & experience to launch a multi-sport and game ecosystem that will resonate strongly with both casual players and aspiring athletes.”
“Athletes everywhere have come to rely on the REZZIL system to help hone their reaction times and skills, making sure they maintain their edge over the competition,” adds Andy Etches, Sports Director at REZZIL. “For the first time, we’re going to let everyone in on the secret: anyone can now benefit from our elite training methods – right in their living room! Learn killer techniques and get access to tips from pro-level coaches. If you’re looking to get to the top or even just to take the first step, Rezzil Player 22 will help you on your journey.”
REZZIL also has major plans for Rezzil Player 22 post-launch. These include a new mini-game called Rayderz, providing 30 levels of fitness/combat action in deep space. The ‘Headers’ mode will also be expanded with Clearing and Passing techniques and more customisation options.
Rezzil Player 22 will be launching for the Oculus Quest platform during the summer priced at $14.99 USD. For further updates keep reading VRFocus.
Rezzil is bringing its athletic training platform to Oculus Quest later this month.
Rezzil Player 22 is a follow-up to the recently-launched Rezzil Player 21, which was exclusive to SteamVR. But, whereas that game was primarily a soccer simulation platform that used SteamVR Trackers to follow your feet, Rezzil Player 22 features a range of exercises based around using your hands and head for coordination and improving fitness.
It’s not an actual soccer simulator this time, then, but Player 22 features a number of different minigames aimed at improving your reactions and accuracy and tracks your progress. The developer says that its platform has been tested by “elite sportsmen and women, coaches and teams”.
At launch the game will have three main drills, based around activities like heading balls. These will ask you to do different things like getting the ball through rings or passing to players. There’s also a reaction wall in which you hit lights as soon as they appear and a basketball-based minigame. Outside of the drills, there’s a brick-breaking game in which you use a paddle to hit a ball and score points.
Rezzil itself is planning to support the platform with updates and DLC in the future, too. A new game mode will be added soon, and there will be expansion packs for the existing content, too.
Rezzil’s virtual reality (VR) simulation platform for training professional football players has been used by clubs around the world for several years now. Today, that expertise is available at home with the launch of Rezzil Player 21 on Steam and Viveport.
Employed by elite clubs such as Manchester United, PSG and Arsenal, the Rezzil platform provides football fans with real-world drills and challenges which have been developed in collaboration with top sports coaches and physios.
Rezzil Player 21 is free on either store and features a ‘Finishing Challenge’ with 3-time limits – 30, 60 or 90 seconds and an ‘Endless’ mode which lets you take on a more casual practice session. To take the experience one step further the additional Color Combos DLC can be purchased, a drill taken from the pro-level version.
Adding to the authenticity you’ll be able to buy genuine Adidas boots and balls like the Predator Mutators or the official Mexico 86 ball. The more you practice and build up those stats you’ll earn achievements and XP to unlock new in-game kit.
“Rezzil has proven to be an essential training tool for many of the world’s top football clubs, and we’re delighted to be offering people at home the chance to play like the pros with Rezzil Player 21,” said Adam Dickinson, Development Director of Rezzil in a statement. “We’re very aware that the current pandemic has really affected both pro and amateur players and so Rezzil is a great way to help keep their fine footballing skills in focus.”
As Rezzil Player 21 is a football simulator you can’t simply slip on any old PC VR compatible headset to play. The software requires at least one Vive Tracker although Rezzil does advise two to get the full experience. Therefore support is limited to the HTC Vive/Vive Pro/Vive Cosmos Elite and Valve Index.
Rezzil Player 21 is free to download now, for any further updates on the latest VR simulators keep reading VRFocus.
