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Re: Video Review Needs to Happen Now
Standing this topic on its head ...
What if inexpensive video (and image processing) became the foundation for both most of the scoring and some of the penalties, in future FRC games?
I think it is technically feasible (I'm being seduced by the "technology trickster") to design interesting FRC games, and to equip FRC fields, to permit/do this.
Cameras would track the state of objects, the location/movement(s) of some objects, and the locations of robots.
Humans would still be needed to enforce some rules (certainly, some penalties), and/or to step in if the field equipment/detectors misfire in some way.
After 2-3 years of behind the scenes R&D, would introducing games designed with this approach in mind, along with introducing fields that attempt to implement those games, be a net improvement or a lead balloon?
Blake
PS: Whatever the answers/opinions, it will be interesting to ask ourselves, "Why?", and then bring the answers to bear on this thread's original topic.
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Last edited by gblake : 17-03-2016 at 16:06.
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