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, Interesting)
It gets better than that.
watching the Louis VItton cup the races themselves could be boring but I literally watched the race on Youtube and used my nexus tablet to watch the virtual race at that same time.
i was watching the race from two different points of view one of which i could control to get Virtual but better camera angles and the other from the TV broadcast. I could see positions of the competitors distance to marks, etc. I could also see the obvious tactical problems where the competitors could have done something different.