The Super Bowl, Football and Computers

With Super Bowl 50 being held in Santa Clara this year, our January General Computing meeting will be on how computer technology is used in football. This technology can be seen in many other sports and at many levels of play. We will have a panel presentation by local companies, like Sportvision, the creator of the 1st & Ten graphic (the "yellow line"). Sportvision will talk about how they do Augmented Reality (AR) for broadcast TV.

Sportvision debuted the use of Augmented Reality in football telecasts with it's 1st & Ten product in 1998. The application of camera tracking, video augmentation and event tracking has expanded over the years from the confluence of more processing power, better algorithms, innovation and imagination. The result is more compelling, inciteful analysis, intuitive in-the-scene visual-aids and entertaining broadcasts.

AngelHack is teaming up with the NFL for the first ever NFL Hackathon, gathering data scientists & developers. Using player tracking from Zebra Technologies, the NFL will be revealing their Next Gen Stats for the first time, to unlock a new spectrum of sports data and change how we see the sport.