Meet the Trio of Tech Startups Bringing Live Sports to Blind Fans

A solid connection is essential when it comes to reducing latency, which is usually just an annoyance but here could completely ruin the experience. Even a slight delay meaning that the movement on the device lags a second or so behind the action would render the whole thing pointless, as the reaction of the crowd would give away that something significant had just occurred. That is one of the main reasons Field of View decided to develop its own cameras, because it found the existing data being collected at the stadiums wasn’t always available in real time. It’s theoretically possible for the Field of Vision device to use third-party data as long as the delay is no more than half a second, but it’s yet to be tested without Field of Vision’s own cameras. All three companies also have plans for their devices to be used somewhere that connectivity shouldn’t be an issue: in people’s homes. After all, that’s where technology like this is likely to be most widely used, with far more fans ... Read full article.