What are the new technologies that are implemented in FIFA 2022? 

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Eliminating sport inefficiency and modernization are two of the major reasons for the FIFA World Cup 2022 technologies to get sports into the stages of rapid digitalization. 

On the List  

There’s plenty of technology showcasing this world cup and you get to see the best of them featured on this list.  

Football is a fan’s dream game. With both the world and this fan driven sport advancing at the same pace some NexGen technology showcase is bound to happen. Although not surprising at all, the new world tech deployed at this king of games this year is bound to shock you a bit nonetheless.  

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VAR  

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The VAR or video assistant referee system has been shrouded under some controversies but in the hindsight, a lot of technical aspects of the sports definitely came into some good light. For reference calling fouls, offsides, and penalties are much easier to assess for both the fans on TV or at the stadium and the sports officials quite unequivocally.  

Selecting Qatar as the FIFA 2022 destination meant it had started on some special preparations like the Vision 20-23 project that went underway to ensure that both the parties (Qatar and FIFA) deployed the latest tech to improve upon the world’s biggest and grandest tournament experience.  

And it started right from the ball itself, from embedding sensors right inside the world cup ball for visually impaired and disabled fans, it definitely goes a lot further down the road. We’ve enlisted the curation outlining the various and ingenious tech deployed in this World Cup series. Although complex and advanced they’re sure fun and interesting to know more about. So be sure to read on.  

The world cup ball  

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From the Jabulani to the Brazuca world cup balls are always full of excitement leading right up to the tournament. With all the hype and fancy behind this highlight of the World’s most famous game comes this year’s ball called the Al Rihla is the official name for it this year. In Arabic dialect, it means a journey that hints at Qatar’s journey to being a world cup host.  

An inertial measurement unit or IMU embedded inside it will help referees’ decisions when it comes to kicking points and offsides. With its data sent to the video operations room approx. 500 times every sec promising no key element of the entire gameplay is missed even for a quarter of a second.  

FIFA states that the current world cup ball’s a work of latest technology with its durability and net weight helping it travel fastest in flight than any other previous match in the history of this game. The bottom line is that this is the most technologically advanced sports ball in the world as of now.  

Technology for the Goal line  

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Across many domestic leagues in Europe, goal-line technology has already been in use for quite some time. However, in FIFA 2022 the latest version of this tech has been deployed. This system is essentially designed to assist referees in decision making on goals. 

Amped with 14 high speed cameras to track the ball movement FIFA has managed to send high resolution data to match officials in a spilled seconds time frame.  

Visualized in a 3D animation that’s broadcasted on TV matches for fans. Even though it started in 2014 itself this time in 2022 it’s bigger and better as its faster saves match time and also removes unwarranted controversies regarding match decisions. With the world cup benchmark, this technology is much needed to make the game as efficient and unbiased as possible. 

FIFA APP   

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With the search out to always improve the game. Professional football is highly data dependent on their teams hence FIFA AND FIFPRO have made it easy for the players now. With an in-depth analysis of their game performance after every match.   

This app promises players data such as enhanced football metrics data and personalized physical performance metrics data. Right from breaking the opposition lines to their maximum speed all will be sent to them almost instantaneously.   

The data collected during these matches are analyzed by the very best FIFA football analysts and experts when encrypted in the app. With the world cup having very short breaks players now don’t need to wait for their national team experts or tell them what they need to work on further on the field. With this data synced with the moments on the field. 

Each player can see their actions in previous matches in the tournament. This comes as an excellent performance scaler for player’s performance at the biggest football stage to improve their skill and represent their nation in the best possible way.  

A Data Ecosystem for Football   

The new age football is poles apart from what the sport was a decade ago.  Right from scouting to performance analysis, all players are on the club’s data radars. Progressive passes, goals, and carries are scalable to the metric of finding the best suited players for it.    

With the stakeholders having the data via the FIFA football Data Ecosystem everything’s accessible right at their fingertips. Powered by processors and reputed sources this data ecosystem has everything in depth when it comes to football.  

Collecting live data during matches and even mapping player’s positions this information helps analysts calculate the direction of the game, the speed of the players, and their overall performance. This data is furthermore used to peak player’s individual performances and it can’t get better or bigger than this itself.  

A Bonocle spectacle for the visually impaired  

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Bonocle has vouched to help provide promissory access to content for the visually impaired fans for this FIFA World Cup 2022.  

It will provide some affirmative help to the blind community all across the world to access the world cup series in newer ways. With added benefits to moving across Doha with lesser restrictions with more freedom to move around, self-navigate, and interact uninhibitedly.   

Feelix Palm- the tactile communicator   

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Adding onto the assistance to visually impaired fans helping them to enjoy the world cup just like anyone else is the feelix palm assistive transcoded functional technology.  

Developed by an Oxford based organization called Feelix this tactile feature load palm communicator will be used to transmit via electric impulses and will offer Braille like messages to visually impaired fans without restricting their movements or sense of hearing during the FIFA World Cup.  

A stadium coolant  

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It was well known that Qatar lacked functional football stadiums when it decided to host the world cup tournament. A lot were dreading the thought of playing in the scorching heat of the peak summer months in June and July.   

FIFA’s reaction was to change the dates to the cooler winter months. All the more a lot of stadiums have been built in Qatar, especially for this tournament and one interesting thing common in them is that all of the stadiums have cooling technology.  

With an energy center built right outside it pushes chilled cold water in pipelines across the stadium and the field. This water can be converted to cold air which is further pushed inside the entire stadium premises. Not only is it an essential invention to beat the heat, but it’s also one of the most fascinating techs that’s been ever deployed in this world cup.  

Conclusion   

Now with stakeholders investing in big time money, they often take into account the Technologies and data involved when holding such grand events. With players able to self-analyze their own performances serves the goal of all footballing companies to ensure maximum efficiency of their players on the world stage.  

That being said, the FIFA World Cup 2022 technologies go a very long way in ingraining modern technology into the age-old sport of football. An event as big as the world cup also guarantees a healthy amount of innovation just for the sake of it.