Ben Crossing
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28 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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Oh, here we go.
VAR.
So back in 2001, it all started as a broadcast problem, not an officiating one, really.
Cricket viewers at home couldn't really understand what the umpire was being asked to judge or in some ways really what was the story about what was going on on the pitch.
We used multiple cameras around a cricket pitch if we stay on the theme of cricket to be able to identify a ball with the cameras running at several hundred frames a second in each image and then be able to triangulate that in a 3D space and then be able to use physics to be able to predict the trajectory of the ball.
There has been delays to the game and there is a big effort on speeding the game up, but actually there's been some quite subtle changes in behaviour that's created, like fewer career-ending injuries.
So the thing that you're always trying to trade off of these things is speed, accuracy and engagement, and it's very difficult to maximise all three of those simultaneously.
Federer had a line call overturned by Hawkeye.
It's a challenge.
And without that technology in that moment, Nadal would have won in three straight sets, and the match ends on a controversial call, and that becomes the story.
And so we made that call.
Federer went on to win the match, and the story became how amazing that match was, and it went five sets.
Controversy disappears, and everyone gets to experience what is one of the greatest sporting finals in history.
We're tracking balls, we're tracking players, we're tracking skeletons on players.
We'll be tracking 22 players and the three officials, all 29 points on their skeleton 50 times a second, which ultimately turns out roughly 2 million data points for every football match that we track.
we're able to convert that data into the right structure and format to be able to overlay cartoon characters or whatever IP might be appropriate.
So for the NFL, we've overlaid the Simpsons.
That allows us to produce a secondary feed of any live sporting event in real time as an alternative to the traditional linear broadcast.
We can cater to specific demographics like children.
We might have a touchdown where Homer Simpson is sprinting away and because they've hit 25 miles an hour,
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