Let's design a new digital viewing experience for sporting events. I'll start by brainstorming some specs. 1. Add microphones to players and coaches so audience can choose who to hear and who to mute. The professional broadcasters would be one of many audio options. Thread...
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4. Put a hundred livestreaming cams around the playing field and let the audience select their own preferred views as well as controlling their own instant playbacks. 5. Allow viewers to chat with other viewers in real time, with all the usual filters and blocking.
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6. Embed the advertising in the game commentary in a campy way, as in having the color commentator say, "He went through the defensive line like a Ram truck full of Budweiser." It works if the audience is in on the joke.
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7. Let the audience call or predict the next play, and display the vote tallies on screen before plays, to compare it with what the coaches and players actually do.
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8. Let amateur livestreamers do commentary on the game via their smartphones. Maybe I choose to listen to the funniest commentator and you pick the one with the most knowledge of the game.
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Wire up players' visual cortex so that you can literally see through their eyes.
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I like the other helmet cams. Too dangerous, at least for football. But chest cams maybe. Baseball you could have hat cams...
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In Cricket for example, they have tiny cameras embedded in the stumps and certain players on either sides are given tiny mics to speak directly to commentators who ask them questions about the situation of the game and their own playbook.
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"Uh oh, Walker, 73 in the Jaguars line, suddenly dropped to his knees in the middle of that play, clutching his helmet just as he seemed about to stop Broadhurst from scoring!" "Jim, I bet that's another interruption we can blame on Scott Adams! Opponent fans ear-jammed him!"
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Football has so much “downtime” that you could let people go back and rewatch it from any viewpoint while play is stopped. Present a curated steam on TV, or let people select views on their phones/tablets, adding a second device to the experience.
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A company in Toronto is doing this and finding a way to pump it into stadiums.
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