The Augmented Reality America's Cup 33
First time accepted submitter Tekla Perry writes "In 'The Augmented Reality America's Cup' Stan Honey and Ken Milnes describe the positioning, communications, graphics, and augmented reality technology they developed that will be used in the upcoming America's Cup races and, they hope, will change the way sailing is televised and watched forever after. Honey and Milnes pioneered car navigation with the startup Etak, and changed the way we watch football on TV with Sportvision's yellow line."
Re:Might as well just upload it all to the cloud (Score:4, Insightful)
I think you missed the point. The race will be run as usual. The presentation to the viewers on TV and online will be 'enhanced' so you can see features of the course not clearly visible. Or as in the case of wind direction, invisible. Its like the first down yellow line in football. Sure, you can see the sideline marker. But where the play is taking place on the field relative to some invisible line is made more clear by the graphics.
Nobody's watching (Score:5, Insightful)
Who cares? This is a race where Larry Ellison had to pay other teams to race against him. Turns out people don't want to watch some billionaire's ego trip just because it's presented in a sports format.