QUESTION · TUESDAY FOCUS

Do you have 1st and 10 and yards to gain lines overlaid in the wide camera? I feel this feature was a way out of reach for small productions, but AI is changing everything.

ASKED BY · Juan · BOGOTA, COLOMBIA · 27 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:58:26

THE PANEL'S ANSWER

He does not currently use first-and-ten overlays; while AI solutions exist, he found them priced at approximately $500 per game, which lacks sufficient ROI for small college operations. He acknowledges technology is improving rapidly with LiDAR and depth mapping approaches.

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58:19I don't see much still in operation that goes that far back, and certainly not to 1988. Last question. Here we are finishing off with another QR code question from Juan in Bogota, Colombia. Do you have first and 10 yards to gain lines overlaid in the wide camera? I feel this feature was a way of reaching for small productions, but AI is changing everything.

58:44You know anybody who's doing all that overlay through AI through the cloud? Yeah, so we do not. And you're right. I've seen some AI solutions that have come across, and it's just like, oh, that's so interesting. And I saw one, and I think it would end up costing us about $500 a game. And to me, at our level, that's not worth it.

59:14It's not worth $500 a game for us. Yeah, but I bet with LiDAR, how much is coming in with LiDAR and depth mapping and things like that? And it probably isn't too long in the future when we're going to be able to do things like those projected lines. Yeah. And it's like it's there, right? Like it is a thing that two years ago you needed like $100,000 pieces of hardware to do this.

59:36But like I said, I've seen at least two different versions that are using AI to do the processing. And they look pretty good and they look pretty interesting. And it's just not like at that price point. It's just not it's not the ROI on it is is low for us. It's something I would love to do, but I could spend two thousand dollars better elsewhere.

1:00:04I hate to say it, but it's the top of the hour. We've had another great show, Chris, entirely based on the fact that you were able to come in and talk about this stuff. We really, truly appreciate you doing that. Any last things you want to say in terms of wrap up? If people have questions for you directly after you spend so much time learning how to figure all this stuff out, how do they get in touch with you and things like that?

1:00:24Yeah, they can check out my website, chrisabato.com. I'm on Twitter at Chris Sabato. Those are probably the two places that are easiest to find. Perfect. Perfect. Thank you so much for being here. And thank you, Cindy, for being here to read questions as always. That's going to wrap it up for another Tuesday Focus. We'll be back next week doing the same kind of thing over and over again.

1:00:45If you had gone around to get your questions answered to the people who answered them in the show, you would have traveled 32,000 miles. That is our Tlaloc traversal for episode 2408. That's 2,408 shows in a row without missing a day. And we're still going. That's 52,000 kilometers or 254 million bananas for scale. Thank you to the crew in the back. Watch the credits as they go by.

1:01:12I'll be back next week with another Tuesday Focus. Thank you for spending your time here. We'll see you next time. Bye-bye. you you

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