Seattle Sounders FC’s Director of Soccer Analytics believes video review will soon be powered by optical tracking, infrared technology, and augmented reality.
At an event hosted by N3XT Sports in Barcelona last week, the Sounders’ analytics head, Ravi Ramineni, envisioned a future in which sports franchises operate with technological infrastructure that’s as robust as that at major tech companies like Google. Teams will be able to leverage sophisticated augmented reality technologies that will enable players to relive their experience on the field so they can better learn from the decisions they made during games, he said.
“To me, augmented reality will have a lot of uses in the future because what happens is a lot of times what you see if you’re watching the game on video, at a wide angle, is not what the player is seeing,” said Ramineni.