Admittedly I do not watch a ton of pool on TV and when I have been watching it on the internet the vids are usually really not very high quality and dont have enough camera angles, so they pretty much suck.
Poker never became popular until they invented the hole card cams where you could see what a player was holding and then watch the way they played a hand therefore it not only had it's entertainment value but also provided a level of education... which obviously empowered people to want to try it and therefore "fall in love" with the game... resulting in unparrelled success for the game...
That got me to thinking.
Now as I said I don't watch a ton of pool on TV so some degree of this might be used. I have obviously seen the pocket cam (useless) and during some broadcasts the commentators would give you the basic strategy of what a player was thinking they wanted to do and what basic english that player was going to be using.
I think that it would be very cool and would probably lend itself to an increased popularity in the sport or at worst and increase in the urge to participate in the sport if they had a few things... some of these things could be added post production if it wouldn't be viable to do it realtime...
1. wouldn't it be cool if when a player took a shot if there was a small cue ball image on the screen showing you exactly what english they were about to apply to a shot? and a small "power meter" which maybe had some red bars maybe going up a cue stick image that showed how much power they applied to a certain shot?
2. "player eye" cams. not sure how this could be accomplished could be as simple as a ear piece (similiar to perhaps a hands free (blue tooth) headset earpiece like for cell phones), or two ear pieces with cameras triangulated to show you what a player was looking at like the exact view that you would see if you were the one looking down the cue preparing for a shot. coupled of course with the above mentioned "english indicator" and "stroke meter"
I think that would not only be very interesting and educational, I think it could certainly ad an additional "interactive" aspect to the game and would almost unquestionably increase the interest in playing the game. People would think "I know how he did that, I gotta try that. I think I can do that".
Thoughts?
~D4\/\/G~
Poker never became popular until they invented the hole card cams where you could see what a player was holding and then watch the way they played a hand therefore it not only had it's entertainment value but also provided a level of education... which obviously empowered people to want to try it and therefore "fall in love" with the game... resulting in unparrelled success for the game...
That got me to thinking.
Now as I said I don't watch a ton of pool on TV so some degree of this might be used. I have obviously seen the pocket cam (useless) and during some broadcasts the commentators would give you the basic strategy of what a player was thinking they wanted to do and what basic english that player was going to be using.
I think that it would be very cool and would probably lend itself to an increased popularity in the sport or at worst and increase in the urge to participate in the sport if they had a few things... some of these things could be added post production if it wouldn't be viable to do it realtime...
1. wouldn't it be cool if when a player took a shot if there was a small cue ball image on the screen showing you exactly what english they were about to apply to a shot? and a small "power meter" which maybe had some red bars maybe going up a cue stick image that showed how much power they applied to a certain shot?
2. "player eye" cams. not sure how this could be accomplished could be as simple as a ear piece (similiar to perhaps a hands free (blue tooth) headset earpiece like for cell phones), or two ear pieces with cameras triangulated to show you what a player was looking at like the exact view that you would see if you were the one looking down the cue preparing for a shot. coupled of course with the above mentioned "english indicator" and "stroke meter"
I think that would not only be very interesting and educational, I think it could certainly ad an additional "interactive" aspect to the game and would almost unquestionably increase the interest in playing the game. People would think "I know how he did that, I gotta try that. I think I can do that".
Thoughts?
~D4\/\/G~
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