On where we are on technologies themselves: Brave was built on a whole new animation system.

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By 1986 Lucasfilm had developed a computer animation system.

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In tests last year at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, MLB experimented with the Hawk-Eye animation system that is used to judge line calls in tennis and the TrackMan radar software used by the PGA Tour.

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Many schools have integrated Organic Motion's system into their gaming, animation, virtual reality, computer science, and life science classes.

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