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posted by n1 on Tuesday April 15 2014, @11:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the sport-needs-more-statistics dept.

The Daily Mail and Metro are reporting:

Atletico Madrid assistant coach Germán Burgos became the first person to use a Google Glass application to help his team to victory on Sunday night.

Burgos took to the dugout at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez wearing a pair of the innovative glasses which Google have developed alongside the the Liga de Futbol Profesional (LFP) to allow coaches to receive live statistics from the match.

The new technology meant the Atletico coach could keep up with 'general statistics', 'game building', 'defence' and 'shots' all while watching their side cruise to a 2-0 win.

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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday April 16 2014, @12:15AM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Wednesday April 16 2014, @12:15AM (#32085)

    I really like the idea of Glass, but I can't help getting the feeling that there is a bit of an orchestrated FUD campaign being waged against it.

    • (Score: 1) by tftp on Wednesday April 16 2014, @02:39AM

      by tftp (806) on Wednesday April 16 2014, @02:39AM (#32142) Homepage

      I am not opposed to professional use of GG, or to a use that is otherwise advantageous to the society. Coaches can use them, and police officers, and other people who need access to information - or who need to publish what they see - in real time. A backpacker on a trail would be better off with clipping a camera to his shirt pocket, but if he is so desperate to capture the nature or the path then he may want to have GG as well.

      The objectionable part is a concatenation of two use conditions that are not advantageous to the society:

      • Wearing GG in public for the sole purpose of videotaping other people, with no obvious good purpose - and, perhaps, with a malicious purpose.
      • Transmitting the video to the Google mothership, where Google will use these recordings for purposes unknown. Make no mistake, if Google can sell the recordings, or the information that is computed from them, they will. You, as an actor in those movies, will not be compensated; you are likely only to get problems from being taped, never a reward. The balance then is negative.

      I do not see any societally important, or even neutral, output of such activities when they are performed purely for personal reasons. GG wearers in such situation would be equivalent to a distributed stalking mob. Why would anyone tolerate that? For what reason? What would you say if someone with a TV camera is following you around town?

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Skarjak on Wednesday April 16 2014, @01:07AM

    by Skarjak (730) on Wednesday April 16 2014, @01:07AM (#32107)

    Many are concerned about google glasses because of the possible privacy issues, or because of the behaviour of some users. This is a professional using the glasses to help in his job, with no privacy issues in sight. Seems like a good use of the technology to me. If only everything didn't have to be a super popular consumer product that will sell billions...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 16 2014, @01:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 16 2014, @01:26AM (#32112)

    I for one have been pretty excited by the prospects of what could be done with Google Glass, and was surprised at the almost universally negative reactions that it has drawn from people even on sites like this and its predecessor, whose communities are supposed to be predominantly avant-garde technophiles. This is one example of one of the many other uses to which Glass could be put, which doesn't involve privacy violation or even Google directly at all. Of course, Google is partly to blame given how they marketed the device, but that should never have seriously deterred hackers from finding their own uses for Glass, especially as Google never put in any serious measures to prevent folks from doing so.

  • (Score: 1) by goodie on Wednesday April 16 2014, @01:29AM

    by goodie (1877) on Wednesday April 16 2014, @01:29AM (#32114) Journal

    Funny thing I just watched Moneyball on Netflix a couple of days ago and this sub made me think of the approach shown here. Now, while I think that this is a legitimate use case for this type of technology (finally!), I also don't see (for now at least) how impressive it really is. I am fairly certain that coaches have a very good understanding of how the game is played out in real time (shots etc.) just like the commentators do. Same in boxing etc. It's just not put in numbers. What would be interesting would be to check out some predictive patterns though I think, such as "when they put a guy in this position at this time of the game, they do this play i 90% of the time". That is if there are such patterns. In any case, interesting use of the tech, but does that translate into the win as the article and the summary seem to imply? Definitely don't think so, unless it was a rookie coach.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday April 16 2014, @07:24AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Wednesday April 16 2014, @07:24AM (#32209) Homepage

    I was sceptical, but now I know that Some Guy is wearing these, I'm in!

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Wednesday April 16 2014, @12:10PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday April 16 2014, @12:10PM (#32269) Homepage
    He was wearing the glasses, then his team won, therefore the glasses helped his team win.

    Logical Fallacies 101 calls.

    There are a million possible interpretations, few of them particularly more convincing than any other. Maybe he's a really shitty team manager, and normally makes nonsensical calls. He was so distracted by the new toy he had strapped to his face that he didn't make as many bad calls, so his team did better. In the hands (on the face) of a decent manager, such distractions - i.e. such devices - would have a negative effect.
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    • (Score: 1) by ramloss on Wednesday April 16 2014, @02:31PM

      by ramloss (1150) on Wednesday April 16 2014, @02:31PM (#32316)

      First thing, it wasn't Diego Simeone (the team manager) who was wearing the glasses, it was Germán Burgos, an assistant.

      Second, the most plausible explanations for the Atlético de Madrid cruising for a 2-0 victory is that they are currently first place in La Liga with a 26-4-3 (w-t-l) record while Getafe (the opposing team) is number 18 of 20 with a 8-7-18 record.

      So yeah, it is highly doubtful wheter google glass had anything to do with the result of the game.

      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday April 17 2014, @11:36AM

        by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday April 17 2014, @11:36AM (#32585) Homepage
        Thanks for the correction. It's easy to posit that 2-0's a pretty crappy result and that the glasses might be worse than useless!
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