Article Contents
- 1. Bowling’s historical past with expertise
- 2. What can we do with the expertise obtainable to us within the sport of bowling?
- 2.1. Understanding lane play
- 2.2. Understanding ball movement
- 2.3. Event and league knowledge
- 2.4. Apply and coaching
- 2.5. 3D modeling and AI
- 2.6. AI in teaching
- 3. Closing ideas
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On this article, I’d prefer to share my ideas on using expertise in bowling. We’ve just lately seen extra bowling apps being developed, and with the rise of AI, the query is how expertise can impression the sport of bowling sooner or later.
The largest problem with expertise is that you need to perceive the instrument you’re utilizing and, extra importantly, the information being produced. If not, you’ll make the fallacious assumptions or draw the fallacious conclusions. At its finest, expertise raises the worth of data. When you perceive it and apply it, it provides you a bonus.
To begin this dialogue because it applies to bowling, let’s take a look at a little bit of a historic perspective.
Bowling’s historical past with expertise
There was a time when bowling was very technologically superior in comparison with different sports activities. Our automated pinsetters created effectivity. Even early lane machines have been technological marvels, and so they’ve solely turn out to be increasingly superior. Our scoring techniques have been additionally an unbelievable use of expertise once they have been first developed.
Lengthy earlier than different sports activities used cameras and sensors to pinpoint the situation of a ball, our automated scorers have been counting the pins knocked down, calculating the rating, and confirming which pins have been left standing. Bowling did have a little bit of a bonus right here over different sports activities, because the pins are stationary and straightforward to trace.
The bigger the thing and the slower it strikes, the simpler it’s to make use of expertise to trace it. For instance, monitoring a soccer is less complicated than monitoring a hockey puck or a tennis ball. Monitoring a bowling ball is even simpler.
One sport during which expertise is closely concerned is golf. Regardless of the small dimension of the ball, it has different benefits. In golf tournaments, there are comparatively few folks performing concurrently—it’s one golfer at a time—and in a really outlined space.
Golf makes use of Doppler radars, which successfully measure distances over 300 yards. Nevertheless, they lose accuracy relating to finer particulars, comparable to spin charge. That is just like how the Kegel Specto system …