Esports, virtual Formula 1 and the new era of play | James Hodge

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🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 12 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 Hugh.
0:06.6	Not many of us get to be race car drivers, but that exhilarating experience is now more
0:12.0	of a possibility for us regular folk thanks to big data.
0:16.5	In his Ted 2022 talk, Technologist James Hodg shares ways previously inaccessible sports
0:23.1	can now be a reality for more of us.
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0:32.5	When you're staying at an Airbnb, you might be like me wondering, could my place be an
0:37.1	Airbnb and if it could, what could it earn?
0:40.8	I think about this all the time.
0:42.6	Sub, whose extra room in London was storing furniture until his mom had the idea to start
0:47.4	Airbnbing it, now that extra room helps pay the mortgage.
0:52.8	I know what your place could be earning at Airbnb.co.uk slash host.
1:01.2	It was Christmas Day 1995.
1:04.5	My brother Rich and I were up early, we were excited Christmas.
1:08.3	He rushed into my room and in there my father had left his IBM thingpad and a note.
1:15.7	This is so you don't wake up your mother and me early.
1:21.9	Merry Christmas.
1:23.2	Next to it was a present, a video game, a football game, FIFA 96.
1:29.0	We tore it open, put it into that laptop and we huddled around and played the match to
1:33.5	end all matches.
1:35.8	We played so many more matches after that.
1:39.4	But neither of us became professional footballers.
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