When you watch this year's English Premier League soccer games, there's a high chance you may get mad at some of the offside calls. However, unlike past seasons, your anger won't be because the call, or the lack thereof, was obviously lousy. That's because the League's new offside-detection system is apparently able to spot a player's position on the field, and call them offside, with more accuracy than ever'and it's all powered by iPhones. The League's rollout of this new semiautomated offside tech later in the 2024'25 season won't just provide long-awaited placation for players and fans frustrated by years of problems with previous video-assistant referee (VAR) systems, from extensive delays and human process errors to concerns about the precision of in-game calls due to limitations of the existing technology. The system utilizes dozens of iPhones, using the cameras to capture high-frame-rate video from multiple angles. Dragon's custom machine intelligence software supposedly...
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