Esports and the new era of play | James Hodge

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🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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As the line between the physical and digital worlds blur, so does the line between real-world and virtual sports. Reframing our understanding of competition, data-driven technologist James Hodge explains how far esports (like virtual Formula 1 race car driving) have come in replicating the conditions of physical sports, making elite competition more accessible than ever before. "This really is the new era for play -- and it's open to everyone," he says.

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0:00.0	It's TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hu. Not many of us get to be race car drivers, but that exhilarating experience is now more of a possibility for us regular folk, thanks to big data. In his TED 2020 talk, technologist James Hodge, shares ways previously inaccessible sports
0:22.6	can now be a reality for more of us.
0:27.9	It was Christmas Day 1995.
0:31.6	My brother, Rich, and I, we're up early.
0:33.3	We're excited. It's Christmas.
0:35.4	He rushed into my room,
0:37.0	and in there, my father had left his IBM think pad and a note.
0:42.5	This is so you don't wake up, your mother and me, early.
0:48.7	Merry Christmas.
0:50.1	Next to it, with a present.
0:52.3	There's a video game, a football game.
0:54.6	FIFA 96.
0:56.0	We tore it open, put it into that laptop,
0:58.5	and we huddled around and played the match to end all matches.
1:02.7	We played so many more matches after that.
1:06.5	But neither of us became professional footballers.
1:09.9	Richard? He's a lawyer.
1:12.4	Me?
1:13.2	I work with data to go and help organizations get that competitive edge and win.
1:19.8	Back in 95, that game was just a video game, nothing more.
1:26.1	Little did we know that in the years to come,
1:29.6	you'd be able to compete in massive online competitions.
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