Free idea: Soccer Radar
This one has been bubbling away in my brain for four years or so, and it's amazing that no one has done it yet.
The problem: Watching soccer on TV sucks, because the camera is so zoomed-in that you can't tell why people are doing what they are doing. It's much harder to appreciate a long through-ball, for example, when you have no idea about the clever run the striker has just made to make it possible.
The solution already exists in video games. For years, EA FIFA players have been able to turn on a "radar" screen showing all the players on the pitch represented by colored lights. You can tell when a player has lost the defender marking him, or when the goalie is far enough out of the net to make chipping him a real possibility, by glancing at the radar regularly.
There are about fifty ways (RFID, image recognition software, etc.) that you could create the same radar for real, live broadcasts. The costs of wiring up stadiums in the Premiership, for example, would not be that high. Revenue could be generated from sponsorships.
Viewers would have the option to turn on the radar, and better understand the game they spend so much time watching.
Come on then - someone get involved!
The problem: Watching soccer on TV sucks, because the camera is so zoomed-in that you can't tell why people are doing what they are doing. It's much harder to appreciate a long through-ball, for example, when you have no idea about the clever run the striker has just made to make it possible.
The solution already exists in video games. For years, EA FIFA players have been able to turn on a "radar" screen showing all the players on the pitch represented by colored lights. You can tell when a player has lost the defender marking him, or when the goalie is far enough out of the net to make chipping him a real possibility, by glancing at the radar regularly.
There are about fifty ways (RFID, image recognition software, etc.) that you could create the same radar for real, live broadcasts. The costs of wiring up stadiums in the Premiership, for example, would not be that high. Revenue could be generated from sponsorships.
Viewers would have the option to turn on the radar, and better understand the game they spend so much time watching.
Come on then - someone get involved!
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