I enjoy sports but often find myself wanting more details than even the best play-by-play announcer can provide. I find myself wondering if technology could help in the situation.
I’ll start by taking football as an example. As most fans of the sport with know you have 22 players on the field at any given time. It would be simply impossible for any announcer to describe the location of all 22 players, let alone what each of them is doing during a play.
Imagine though if you divided a football field up into a complete grid where you could express the location of any spot by a set of coordinates. Then imagine that you can describe the location of players based on this grid. So at the start of the play you could indicate where all 22 players are lined up. Then as the players move during a play, you could have technology that would communicate how any player is moving throughout the grid.
Or imagine if you could combine this technology with the accessibility improvements that have come in various touch devices so you could slide your finger around in the application window and tell the location of any player at any time. Obviously doing any of this in real time would likely still be tough but imagine if you could do this on demand for certain plays just to get a sense of what’s really going on.
I have no idea how possible this is with today’s technology. It seems like it could be an interesting research project for someone in the right environment. I’m tossing this out there because it’s some thing I’ve thought about lately. Anyone want to take up the challenge?
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