What Can a New Generation of Apps and Tech Bring to Football

Technological innovation plays a crucial role in keeping football fresh and exciting. As fans, we get to watch ever more games in ever-increasing detail, from more devices than have ever been available before. Yet, most innovations we've seen in the football viewing realm have been little more than an extension of the traditional TV broadcasts we grew up enjoying.

Looking forward to the next generations, we want to explore which systems might really reshape the way fans enjoy the beautiful game. What could this add to the experience that we can’t access today, and will this technology really be useful for the average user?

An Increasing Reliance on Apps

Paving the way for new ways to engage will be the software that provides more streamlined access and increased opportunities. This has been the case in most sports and entertainment systems, where improved websites and apps have made it infinitely easier for existing fans and new users to engross themselves.

Perhaps the best demonstration of this comes from the digital entertainment sphere with online casino gaming. The best bingo app experiences available today allow access to hundreds of games, and not just bingo. These include slot and casino titles, jackpot releases, and bonuses that are simple to collect and play. This kind of smooth and open access via app support is continually raising the bar for players, and systems in football like the FIFA Official App take similar paths.

New Tech with New Viewing Potential

Building on the software from apps comes the new opportunities made possible with the newest generations of viewing technology. This is best illustrated by augmented and virtual reality, both of which provide potential never available before for football enthusiasts.

Most directly related to us here at To The 92, VR headsets allow users to fully drop into stadiums, providing an extra level of engagement with panoramic photos and actual matches. With this growing technology, already explored in other sports and platforms like Meta, you can take a front-row seat to the action in a fully immersive 3D environment. VR might not be quite like being there in person, but it will be much cheaper and more convenient, offering advantages the real world never could.

Augmented reality also features potential in digitally projecting games into the real world via advanced glasses and headset technology. These systems allow users to project entire games into real-world environments, transforming surfaces like coffee tables or floors into virtual football fields that can be viewed from above. The angles these allow aren’t possible to enjoy through traditional viewing means, and they’re already being explored in sports like basketball.



The newer generation of apps and viewing technology will never be necessary to enjoy what football brings to sports, but for the right users, they could still add a great deal to how we enjoy it. Whether it's just watching games with less difficulty, taking a seat you could never inhabit in real life, or swooping in to watch players as a bird might, the new potential adds more to an already fantastic experience. Even if you're not interested in making these new approaches your default ways to engage, they're still worth exploring when they arrive, to see just how far the game has come, and where it might be going.