Photographs by Bora Erden Methodology The 3-D scene was created based on the photographs captured by The New York Times at the game. The positions of the players, ball trajectory and player paths were determined using a custom software created by The Times. The software uses computer vision to detect and track the players and the ball. It also uses 3-D projections to manually map those elements to their real-world coordinates on the field. This data was used to build an immersive scene of the play.
See Pulisic and Balogun Combine as USA Beats Paraguay in Opening World Cup Game
View in 3-D how Christian Pulisic and Folarin Balogun made the second goal for the U.S. team in a 4-1 thrashing of Paraguay in its World Cup opener.
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