Technology you would love to see in AFL and think will be possible within the next decade?

[RUNVS]

The gadgets and gimmicks changing the future of live sport
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/...the-future-of-live-sport-20150126-12yqfc.html

Australia's love of sport appears to be more from in front of a TV screen than actually attending any event live, and that could be on the increase given some of the new technology heading our way.

Samsung has confirmed that its new Sports Live app — on display at this year's Consumer Electronic Show in the US —will be available in Australia later this year, but for which sport codes has still to be announced.

The app is part of its smart television range and provides on-screen information — over and above that normally provided onscreen by the host broadcaster — relative to the particular sporting event being viewed.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/...the-future-of-live-sport-20150126-12yqfc.html

This thread is not so much about the article but more about technologies you would love to see in an AFL broadcast either watching on TV or at the game that you think could be possible within the next 10 years?

For me a technology I would love to see is some sort of tracking device on every single player so in the top right hand corner of the coverage of the game is an oval which tracks the movements of every player on the ground. One disadvantage to watching games at home is sometimes you cannot see play setting up further down the ground but with this idea everyone at home will know exactly what is happening all over the ground

Sort of similar to what has been happening in Soccer and cricket video games for years

So what sort of technology would you like to see?

 

[Dan]

A button that flushes every toilet in a stadium.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

A proper airborne camera system that can be controlled quickly and accurately. Kinda like skycam or the helicopter thing they had on the cricket.

Be awesome to be following a bloke running down the ground and seeing the options ahead of him etc, and also those coming at him that he can't see.

 

[Jobe Watson]

Let's start with a goal review system that actually works.

 

[GCNavyBlue]

I think sensors on the goal posts to detect the ball deflecting off the post would be a great inclusion. St Kilda fans would have loved that one in 2009

 

[Pessimistic]

Holographic live tv beamed to smaller stadiums in other geographic locations

3d replays and 3d replays of selected games



Edit 40k posts. Depressing

 

[GCNavyBlue]

One of those 80's movie style boxing gloves that bounces outta the footy n punches designated campaigners in the face when they get the pill. Adam Goodes, Ryan Crowley, Reece Conca n Lyndsay Thomas fingerprint detection...

 

[Pessimistic]

The equivalent of the red dye when people pee in pools for stagers and duckers

 

[Purple Suit]

I want the ability to change commentary team members. Don't like Basil, turn him off and he is substituted by a computer with witty one liners.

 

[Captivating]

HD telecast

 

[tasmanlvr]

I think sensors on the goal posts to detect the ball deflecting off the post would be a great inclusion. St Kilda fans would have loved that one in 2009

I like the idea of those Zings you have in the BBL put on the goalposts for when the ball hits it.

 

[beerbandit]

A pie warmer that heats the pies

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Hot spot to show if the ball hits the post

Proper umpire camera (connected to glasses, not their hats)
This includes field umpires, that way we can see what they've seen before jumping up and down about poor umpiring (the technology is used in rugby union)


What were more likely to see (as long as channel 7 has the footy)
Super zoom cameras that can record and break down the molecules of a players body so we can see the time of their last stool movement
"Delicious"

 

[SBYM]

Super tight guernseys and shorts made out of the same stuff they wear in cycling time-trials, simultaneously reducing wind resistance (turning plodders into speedsters) and making it nigh on impossible to lay a tackle.

 

[SBYM]

A pie warmer that heats the pies

HA!!

 

[Furn2]

A beer that costs under $8

 

[Big_Birdy]

Sirens loud enough

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Sirens loud enough

Clearly haven't been to the mcg then?

 

[suspect footskills]

Post sensors and sensors inside balls to determine if the ball has been touched

 

[Sttew]

Super tight guernseys and shorts made out of the same stuff they wear in cycling time-trials, simultaneously reducing wind resistance (turning plodders into speedsters) and making it nigh on impossible to lay a tackle.

Impossible to lay a tackle from outside but would highlight the tackle within

 

[moses]

Robot Crows premiership

 

[Admiral Byng]

The only one I'd go for is some system of lights around the stadium that go off along with the siren. Like they do in the basketball.

Shouldn't be hard.

 

[Hairy Lager]

A droid kinda like R2D2 that umpires and gets every decision right.

 

[Admiral Byng]

oh - and a spidercam type arrangement on wires, but carrying a basket with a footy. Instead of a centre-square ball-up the basket releases a footy from 20m.

 

[Damon_3388]

A proper airborne camera system that can be controlled quickly and accurately. Kinda like skycam or the helicopter thing they had on the cricket.

Be awesome to be following a bloke running down the ground and seeing the options ahead of him etc, and also those coming at him that he can't see.

Haven't they tried this on the footy (on both 7 and 9) a couple of times, with everyone thinking it was crap?