Wednesday, March 11, 2009

It's Gettin' Hot in Here

New "heat mapping" technology is being installed at all MLS stadiums for the upcoming season. From ft.com:

The technology, developed by an Israeli acquisition, was really designed for sports programming and is known as Sport Vu.

In soccer, the cameras act as sensors to produce heat maps of areas of the field that a player covers, statistics are produced for touches and time on the ball and 3D scenes can be rendered from the perspective of any player on the pitch. The equipment is being installed at all Major League Soccer venues in the US for the coming season.


(seen @mlsrumors)


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