Cameras on the players’ bodies and refereeing at a football match could be the future of sports broadcasting? Has Gamification gone too far? Well, I hope not.

The experiment was carried out during a pre-season friendly match between the German national team. FC Cologne and reigning champion of Italy Milan. Some of the players and referees had cameras attached to their clothing, so spectators had access to the well-known “first-person view” very common in games. During the match, several decisive moves could be traced through this new corner.

In the video below you can see some cuts of the match and see how the players greet each other, the goals and the linesman watching the game from the side of the field:

From games to reality. From reality to games

Broadcasts of various sports are becoming more and more innovative in order to attract new audiences and offer their viewers an increasingly immersive experience. At the beginning of the year for super bowla Samsung took his monster in Sophie Stadium, in Los Angeles: Infinity Display, which is nothing less than the largest LED panel ever built for sports events. As I said, the monster with an oval display area of ​​6500 m² and a resolution of 80 million pixels rises 37 meters above the field.

In American football, drones are already being used to monitor the game more closely. In our favorite football, overhead cameras are the latest trick to make broadcasts more immersive. And some of these innovations seem to come straight from the games and give the games more emotion.

In one of the FIA ​​series, Formula E, this is very well implemented. This category is controversial with electric cars, it allows them to use a sort of “turbo”, but for this it must pass on certain sections of the track in order to “turn on” this extra speed. In addition to interacting with spectators who can vote online for their favorite riders and improve their speed.

Innovations like these only make sports more interactive, accessible, and fun. I hope built-in cameras will be implemented in the future.

Via: Kotaku

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