New Paintball Gear: GI Vision Goggles
June 14, 2011 in Gear
GI Sports has been rumored to be working on a line of new paintball gear for some time now. ProPaintball insiders suggested that a new paintball goggle would be on its way shortly after the new GI paintball brand was announced last year. The Italia brothers who own GI Sports/Vision/Milsim also happen to own OptiCoating, a goggle and lens manufacturing business as well as a EyeTactical, a tactical goggle company. With all of that in mind, ProPaintball insiders wagered that it was only a matter of time until the Italia brothers released a paintball goggle of their own.
Graphics placed on the GI Sports paintball trailer and box art only served to fuel the speculation. Last fall, ProPaintball insiders zeroed in on the the GI Sports & Milsim paintball box art featuring a sneak peak at the new paintball goggles from GI. The goggles pictured in the box art will be officially branded as the GI Vision SLIVER goggle system. Yes, you read that right, S-L-I-V-E-R. Designed and manufactured by Richmond Italia’s goggle company OptiCoating, the new GI Sports goggle systems are said to have great optical clarity and feature a very easy lens replacement system. Read below for a first look at the new paintball gear and goggle systems from GI’s new line, GI VISION.
GI Sports will be unveiling two Goggle systems. The first goggle will be known as the GI SLEEK Vision System. The GI Sleek Vision system features GI’s “3 star” rating, meaning it has been designed for paintball fields and recreational players. This paintball mask will be offered at a lower price point.
The second goggle is the GI SLIVER Vision System. The SLIVER is targeted at both tournament paintball players and recreational/scenario players that refuse to use anything less than the best available paintball gear. The SLIVER goggle features GI Sports “4 Star” rating, a mesh style venting system near the mouth for improved communication and distortion free optics.
ProPaintball insiders familiar with GI Sports suggest additional pieces of paintball gear are being prepared for release at PSP World Cup. Initial reports suggest a line of soft goods including paintball jerseys, paintball gloves and protective paintball pads may be in the works.
khand187 said on June 14, 2011
Hi Profiler! Glad to see you again!
:{ said on June 14, 2011
scott goggles 2.0
chris said on June 14, 2011
HAHAHAHAHA! I thought the exact same thing.
That is too funny… That is of course if you can remember Scott Goggles….or were even born then.
John said on July 1, 2011
thought the samething man
Andre. . . said on June 14, 2011
the lookie somwhat like profilers
khand187 said on June 14, 2011
They look exactly like Profilers.
Chesco said on June 16, 2011
haha I agree with you, looks like they took the profiler and change some things haha is a very ugly mask
Thizzle said on June 14, 2011
They kind of look like the old skull masks with profiler lenses.
george said on June 14, 2011
These look sharp! Good luck GI!
gambo said on June 14, 2011
Like the look but have to made sure when it rains the rain doesn’t end up on the inside of the goggles running down the lens interfereing with the view?
Nick said on June 14, 2011
Hello uglyass profilers and grills…
Dave said on June 14, 2011
These things look like a bad pair of rental googles!
*936* said on June 14, 2011
Just wait til your fav pro team wears them…then you will be singing a different tune…
Dave said on June 14, 2011
No way. I would feel bad for any pro team tasked with making these goggles look cool.
Yeah! said on June 14, 2011
these are ugly
KidInfamous said on June 14, 2011
Looks like a cross between the old profilers and the newer grillz
I am not sure if i like the look of them, they are kinda ehh. i just don’t like the styling.
Pdenny said on June 15, 2011
Old game face lol
profiler|grill said on June 15, 2011
You all know the Owner of GI Milsim aka Richmond Italia, use to be the owner of Procaps aka VFORCE , no big suprise there… all the GI gear are revemp procaps gear pretty much…
Will keep my profiler and grill, these looks weird
soflakid said on June 15, 2011
not having soft ears is a huge fail!!!!!
Joe said on June 15, 2011
10 bucks russians are wearing them next event
Wink said on June 16, 2011
It doesn’t look like these have foam.
The South African said on June 16, 2011
I Quote from the Sliver write up: “Aero Dynamic”. Just how fast do they think players are?
Justin said on June 17, 2011
Faster than the speed of light
Pballa said on June 17, 2011
Pig snout goggles? Awesome! I always wanted to look like pig-man running around the field.
Gerry Martin said on June 19, 2011
They look like Mortal Kombat masks if you take off the lens…
Justin said on June 21, 2011
Gerry,
MK! Ha! Which character do you think? Scorpion is the one that comes to mind first..is that what you are referencing?
John said on June 21, 2011
One word: UGLY!
B said on June 22, 2011
Profiler lens, scott’s frame. born this.