- Sony shares more details on his NFL coaching helmet
- The Sony NFL coach’s helmet will make his debut for the 2025 NFL season
- This will not be bought by consumers, but promises the best ANC in class like the WH-1000XM6
Sony is the official technological partner of the NFL – the National Football League – and we know that the technology giant has worked on a helmet for coaches and other officials. We even had a first glance in January at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Now, however, the Sony NFL coach’s headset is official, is available in three styles and will do its debut before the 2025 season. And when the season starts later this year, you can expect 32 teams to use the helmet.
Unlike the latest Sony WH-1000XM6 for Sony, the NFL coach’s helmet is tailor-made to, well, what the name describes. It is designed from zero to work for coaches in a game environment, and it starts with connectivity. He has not bluetooth on board, but plugs into a special connectivity box that draws from the private network, fueled by Verizon, for the NFL and the teams.
There are also physical buttons or capacitive tactile controls on the NFL coach’s helmet. He also does not have rechargeable battery; Sony is more old-fashioned, perhaps a faster route than requiring recharge by feeding this helmet with two AAA batteries. He also does not wear a specific IPX note, but Sony tested stress to the unit for extreme and extreme heat at the NFL games.
This was done in environments where these weather conditions are recreated, as well as by live tests during the NFL matches last season, including a freezing and snowy game at the Highmark stadium of the Buffalo Bills.
Sony’s past experience with various public headphones, including the WH-1000 series, will inform the design and other aspects, but it will probably focus on cancellation and collection of noise. Nor is it as simple that there are several design options for this helmet, depending on the team and even individual preferences.
Yes, it is delivered in a model with left and right headphones, but there are also two other options – just a left headset and just a right atrium. The three, however, are delivered with a microphone on a boom. Sony, however, offers an active noise cancellation on the three models.
Sony put it to the test in stadium environments where the sound of the ambient crowd was measured at 100 decibels.
The cancellation of the resulting noise makes, says that Sony, works effectively and has been set specifically for this use case – here, it means being able to hear the communication during the key, but also for the microphone on board using the processing of the signal voice to collect only the person who speaks, and not for the background chatter or even the sound of the stadium.
Since there are no buttons on the headphones, the microphone is automatically disintegrated when the boom is increased. However, the belt pack, to which the helmet will be blocked, will also have manual orders.
A large part of the objective here has clearly devoted to the manufacture of a sustainable helmet which could resist the game after the use of the game, although Sony confirmed with us that each team would have backups and that the set of global functionalities was made to a goal for each coaching staff.
The headset of the Sony NFL coach will be worn during the 2025 season, which begins in early September, but will make its debut at the start of the fame in late July. He has, of course, a Sony brand at the front and in the center, after all, he will be broadcast on television. I am just curious to know if these will make it a simultaneous distribution beyond sports-a sword by swinging could be treated.
As you can suspect with such a specially designed product, there is no plan for a consumption version for the NFL coach’s helmet. Those who after a Sony helmet will have to consider the Sony WH-1000XM6, and you can read our complete review here.
