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amelius
I want an ad-blocker which can overlay these ads with art.
qwerty456127
If I were a billionaire I would pay the same company who developed the technology to develop an ad-blocker for me :-)
Philip-J-Fry
How do they extract the players when the ads are constantly changing? I know tech like this has existed for decades for adding graphics over the actual grass, because they can just key out the green. But I never realised they could do it on ads like that.
thxg
I don't know how they do it, although the reddit commenters do mention IR emitters/reflectors in the ad panels being used to create a mask.

What I did notice is that the system commonly has very slight glitches around player bodies if you pay very close attention. This is most visible in close-up shots from mid-height cameras. The effect is similar to how video call blur filters imperfectly detect hair boundaries. The ad boards sometimes cover small parts of players' faces.

bellyfullofbac
Ha, a LinkedIn post copy-pasting a tweet that screenshotted a reddit comment.

I guess some people play the "I want to be a LinkedIn influencer" game...

randompwd
https://twitter.com/ultralinx/status/1411807406728925196

This is credited at the bottom of the LinkedIn(??) post and the tweet itself (as pointed out elsewhere and ref'd in tweet) is just grabbed from reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/odmy22/di...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

Seriously, fuck ppl who don't declare upfront that what they're posting is not original work - truly the bane of the internet.

zinekeller
Edit: Oh my, it seems that:

a) randompwd and subsequently hiq here has pointed out the same thing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27769773), it seems to be posted at the same time as my comment, and

b) as kiruio pointed out, the video was from https://www.adi.tv/projects/bundesliga-digital-perimeter. The explanation on Reddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/odmy22/di...) seems to be the original explanation though. What a rabbit-hole.

Original comment:

Credit to where it is really due:

The image: [Twitter link, removed because it came from the above website]

The explanation: https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/odmy22/di...

ID1452319
Is that article correct? How do the images not result in blurring of the players, as they run in front of the ads?
rhyswallace
A while ago I got really interested in how this technology worked, and was digging into the various companies that provide this.

This company offers some interesting info about the tech: https://broadcastvirtual.com/