Looking out, looking in
IT IS never the same on television. Sport, that is. And it probably never will be. The roar of the players and the smell of the crowd will not be easy to duplicate remotely. But if Takeo Kanade, of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, has his way, televised sport may, one day, in one crucial way, be better than the real thing.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Looking out, looking in”
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