Get acquainted with the trio of technological startups that carry sports sports to blind fans

A solid relationship is essential when it comes to reducing latency, which is usually just annoyance, but here it can completely ruin experience. Even a slight slowdown, which means that the movement of the device lags behind a second or more behind the action would do the whole thing meaningless, since the reaction of the crowd would give that something significant happened.

This is one of the main reasons why the visual field has decided to develop its own cameras, as it found that existing data are collected at the stadium, not always available in real time. It is theoretically possible for the field of the visual device to use third -party data as long as the delay is no more than half a second, but it is yet to be tested without its own cameras on the Vision field.

All three companies also have plans to use their devices somewhere that connectivity should not be a problem: in people’s homes. After all, there is probably technology like the one that is the most widely used, with many more fans watching the sport of sofa comfort than in person.

Mace says OneCourt intends to build his home version of the product over the next six months, and while some obstacles are removed outside the stadium, he introduces some new ones: tracking data will have to be licensed to use another place, synchronization with the broadcast will be a challenge for overcoming.

Full circle

So far, all three companies are focused on providing their devices to as many stadiums and arenas as many as possible. The highest-ranking Touch2see applications were at last year’s Olympics and Ligue 1 football matches in France; OneCourt is now available in all Portland Trail Blazers and Sacramento Kings Home Games in the NBA; And Field of Vision has a Marvel Stadium deal in Melbourne for its AFL games, plus its device is already constantly installed at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.

Irish rugby fan Martin Gordon, who lost his eyesight more than two decades ago, used the Field of Vision product for the first time when he was present at the collision of the six countries between Ireland and England earlier this year. “They gave me a demonstration, but within 10 or 15 minutes after its use you know the difference between vibrations,” he says.

Gordon played Rugby when he was at school, so even with an audio comment, he had a pretty good idea of ​​what was happening on the pitch in front of him, but he says that the use of the field of visual playing is much more exciting. “For someone like me who has been on rugby field and knows exactly what a person looks like when I listen to comments, I can imagine where the play is, but being able to feel it is amazing. Now someone who hasn’t even seen a rugby field can really feel about the game if you call the pun.”