{"id":7118,"date":"2018-06-23T08:42:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7118"},"modified":"2018-06-23T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:42:37","slug":"ar-soccer-on-your-table-google-facebook-researchers-make-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/23\/ar-soccer-on-your-table-google-facebook-researchers-make-it-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"AR soccer on your table? Google &#038; Facebook researchers make it happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can low-res YouTube footage be used to generate a 3D model of a ballgame\u2014one that can then be visualized from different angles &amp; mixed into the environment in front of you? Kinda, yeah!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eRGAB4QBS6U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/06\/19\/football-matches-land-on-your-table-thanks-to-augmented-reality\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/grail.cs.washington.edu\/projects\/soccer\/\">Soccer On Your Tabletop<\/a>\u201d system takes as its input a video of a match and watches it carefully, tracking each player and their movements individually. The images of the players are then mapped onto 3D models \u201cextracted from soccer video games,\u201d and placed on a 3D representation of the field. Basically they cross FIFA 18 with real life and produce a sort of miniature hybrid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NewImage-23.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"227\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eRGAB4QBS6U\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can low-res YouTube footage be used to generate a 3D model of a ballgame\u2014one that can then be visualized from different angles &amp; mixed into the environment in front of you? Kinda, yeah! Per TechCrunch, The \u201cSoccer On Your Tabletop\u201d system takes as its input a video of a match and watches it carefully, tracking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7119,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118\/revisions\/7119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}