If watching football in 4K ultra high-definition* with surrounding sound and real-time stats flooding in over the iPad isn’t enough, footie fans will soon be able to “feel” the game, thanks to a new fan shirt.

    Fans can wear their team’s shirt with pride with added haptic* feedback sending subtle vibrations to the user’s chest whenever players score a goal, pick up a card, or any other key event during the game.

    The Football Fan Shirt is the brainchild of Wearable Experiments, which claims the shirt is “the fourth dimension of entertainment” and connects fans to the players like never before.

    The shirt is being launched in time for the European Championships, taking place across France.

    Users connect their shirt to their smartphone via Bluetooth and receive feedback every time there is an event in the game, including goals, cards, fouls and celebrations.

    Through the dedicated app, users can pick their team and the app then uses real time game data to tell the shirt when to buzz.

    According to Wearable Experiments: “This creates a heightened sense of excitement blurring the lines between player and spectator.”

    Wearable Experiments (or We:eX) unveiled a shirt for American football fans at the Super Bowl in February.

    In 2014, We:eX was tasked with merging hardware software and clothing design for an experiment to create “Alert Shirt,” the precursor to the latest shirt.

    Billie Whitehouse, designer and director of We:eX, said at the time: “Wearable technology must be intuitive and seamless within our daily lives, enhancing our life experience while connecting us to other people and the world at large. Alert Shirt is a major first step in the right direction.”(SD-Agencies)