“One of the biggest sort of, like, recent trends in sports is just capturing as much data as possible through RFID sensors and things like that. So you can imagine a future of maybe three or four years from now where each player, the ball itself, is, is connected to this data source. So you're collecting information in the X, Y, Z space of every player, how they move constantly throughout the course of a game.”
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