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Title: NFL Adopts Sony's 'Virtual Measurements' for Football's First Downs
Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/06/1932...
theodp writes: America's National Football League announced that beginning
with the 2025 season, Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology will
assess and identify first downs after a ball spot. Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual
measurement technology, which consists of six 8K cameras for optical tracking
of the position of the ball, is operated from the NFL's "Art McNally GameDay
Central Officiating Center" in New York and is integrated with the League's
existing replay system. It will serve as an efficient alternative to the
process of having a three-person chain crew walk chains onto the field and
manually measure whether 10 yards have been met after the official has
spotted the ball. However, the chain crew will remain on the field in a
secondary capacity. The NFL's executive VP of football operations says their
move brings "world-class on field officiating with state-of-the-art
technology to advance football excellence." (The NFL's announcement notes the
whole process takes about 30 seconds, "saving up to 40 seconds from a
measurement with the chains." The move comes a full seven years after Apple
introduced its iPhone Measure app...
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