When it opens this crepuscule , the New Meadowlands Stadium will be the NFL ’s most body politic of the graphics adeptness . That means line up up instant replay on demand on your smartphone ( or just checking how long the conceding lines are ) .
Hoping to keep apace with the sport ’s increasingly sophisticated television broadcasts , arena official have poured some $ 100 million into applied science at New Meadowlands , which will be home to both the New York Jets and Giants come this fall .
That $ 100 million gets you 2,200 televisions with 48,000 straight groundwork of total screenage — the most of any NFL stadium — admit four large screens like the unity seen above . But even more radically , it buy a rooms of smartphone apps that will let fans see plot statistics , look out telecasting replay , or even monitor live feeds from other game around the country .
If you ’re a purist who likes to keep your eyes on the theatre , the apps will also let you go over updates in the area around the bowl and , crucially , set which conceding stock are the short .
The apps , which were built by Cisco and Verizon , swear on a meshwork of 500 wireless antennas scatter throughout the stadium . And while some fans are sceptical of how much they ’ll use the new offering , others are already place smartphones right alongside face paint and nachos as requisite armoury for the NFL bowl experience of tomorrow . [ NYT ]
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