A solid connection is essential with regard to the reduction of latency, which is generally only a discomfort but here could completely ruin the experience. Even a slight delay, which means that the movement on the device is lagging behind about a second behind the action would make it all useless, because the reaction of the crowd would give that something significant had just happened.
This is one of the main reasons why the field of view has decided to develop its own cameras, because it found that the existing data collected in the stages were not always available in real time. It is theoretically possible that the field of vision of the vision uses third-party data as long as the delay does not exceed half a second, but it is not yet tested without the own cameras of the field of vision.
The three companies also have plans so that their devices are used somewhere that connectivity should not be a problem: in people’s houses. After all, this is where technology like this is probably the most used, with many more fans who look at the sport of the comfort of their sofas than in person.
Mace says that Onecourt intends to build its domestic version of the product in the next six months, and although certain obstacles are deleted outside the stage, it introduces new ones: follow -up data must be conceded under license to find use elsewhere, synchronization with diffusion will present a challenge to overcome, and they will need to determine how to offer technical support.
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For the moment, the three companies focus on making their devices available in as many stages and arenas as possible. Touch2See’s most prominent uses were the Olympic Games from last year and during Ligue 1 football matches in France; Onecourt is now available in all the Blazers of Portland Trail and the home matches of Sacramento Kings in the NBA; And the field of vision has an agreement in place with Marvel Stadium in Melbourne for its AFL games, and its device is now permanently installed at the Aviva stadium in Dublin.
The Irish fan of rugby Martin Gordon, who lost his sight completely more than two decades, used the product of Field of Vision for the first time when he attended the confrontation of the six nations between Ireland and England earlier this year. “They gave me a demonstration, but within 10 or 15 minutes following it, you know the difference between the vibrations,” he said.
Gordon was playing rugby when he was at school, so even with audio comments, he has a fairly good idea of what’s going on on the field in front of him, but he says that the use of the field of vision makes the game much more exciting. “For someone like me who was on a rugby field and knows exactly what is like, when I listen to comments, I can imagine where the game is, but being able to feel it exactly is incredible. Now, someone who has never seen a rugby field can really have an idea of the game, if you excuse the game of words.”