[news] Rocky Start for Wearables in Professional Sports Games

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Here is an interesting article about wearable technology in US pro-sport Rocky Start for Wearables in Professional Sports Games - IEEE Spectrum

 

This is a new area for sporting bodies to come to grips with. In the article it says "The devices could give players who wear them an unfair advantage, especially if they provide real-time feedback during games." I don't see this as any different to F1 and other car racing. F1 has used live telemetry since the mid 1980s and in 2002, engineers were allowed to adjust the car from the pits as it is whizzing around the track. This has now been outlawed, but I think they can use live telemetry to adjust the car during a pit stop. A couple of years ago they tried live telemetry for the Worlds Strongest Man competition, but I don't think the viewers found it all that interesting so it is no longer used AFAIK.