Not long ago, I was watching the USA vs. South Korea women’s volleyball tournament at the London Olympics and noticed that the coach was having a hard time talking to the players because of the excitement of the crowd. My opinion is that we can solve this problem very easily with the latest and greatest technologies, let me explain. You see, the military has had eye-tracking technology for quite some time, and they’ve used it for their helicopter gunships. Like the Apache attack helicopter.
Today, eye-tracking technologies are used to help people navigate computers, even write in cursive using eye movement, which works great for those who are paralyzed from the waist down and can’t typing on a keyboard, this allows them to communicate. Next is directional voice technology, which uses directional sound strategies that allow anyone with a special device to point at the target and deliver that sound directly to the individual.
In this case, it would be a coach looking at a specific player and then speaking to that player in a normal voice, which would send that voice across the room where only that player could hear it, amplified accordingly.
Eye-tracking software could be used as a kind of “Google Eyeglasses” type system. It seems that all this application, and although it could give advantage to one side over the other, allowing the coach to speak better with the players, eventually both groups or the entire competition could have the same technologies. It would make the game better, more competitive and it would solve a real problem created by the fans speaking profusely in the audience.
Once the eye-tracking software was attached to the directional sound device, everything else would be automated. All the coach would have to do is look in a certain direction and start talking. Of course, there may be rules where he can’t say anything to the other team, therefore he won’t be able to put voices in their heads or cause them to lack concentration as the ball approaches.
Some people believe that this level of technology should not be used in the Olympics because some teams will not be able to afford it and it could give an unfair advantage, but I disagree because some of our latest and greatest technology is already being used. in uniforms, sportswear and Olympic training. In fact, I hope you will please consider all of this and think about it.
