Inside the new technology that ‘speeds up the game’ at the Qatar Fifa World Cup

Dina Hassan, global head of marketing and communications at Hawk-Eye Productions, told Express.co.uk: “VAR is a tool that we built to help officials such as referees or anyone else officiating football matches make accurate and faster decisions. What the technology itself is, is known as what we called smart video reviews, or synchronized multi-angle replay technology. 

“What we do is synchronize all of the camera feeds available in order to give the referees an exact view from every angle of what went down at the event on the pitch.

“While VAR was originally introduced at the 2018 World Cup, this year the big advancement on the system of officiating is semi-automatic offsides. This is, in addition to the video feeds and smart video reviews that comes with VAR, we have added on our tracking technology called skeletrack, which tracks the ball and 29 points on the body in real-time to give referees the opportunity to view this incident as it happens. 

“What is cool about this is that we are also able to, in under half a second, virtually recreate the action so that there is an actual visualisation of what happened during the offside incident so that referees and even fans can see it clearly.”

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