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What's it feel like to slam-dunk like a pro a lot like this view about as close to the action as you can get is brought to you by Google glass and San Francisco startup crowd optic wants to share this vantage point with fans through their mobile devices it's partnered with the Sacramento Kings which has put Google glass in the hands of players inheriting somebody's view means that basically you have their POV right that's right I I what happens with our technologies I look they have Google glass running so say DeMarcus Cousins is working on his file shots or stuffing the ball or whatever and I'm interested in what he's seeing so I can look at him and and tap into his recording I press a button on my Google glass and then in my viewer I'm seeing what he sees the tech takes fans to places usually off limits giving them in a way an all-access pass to using that Google glass get you some you need one crowd optic is betting that in the very near future more people in the stands will have wearable devices that would enable its technology to uncover what it calls nooks and crannies we can understand what the crowd is focused on using a principle called triangulation so we calculate individuals line of sight and then and then in a on a dashboard or an in in the cloud we calculate where all the lines of sight are where the overlaps we call those clusters and then we can track crowd attention and use that as a basis for things like sharing information sharing videos sharing comments and things like that think of it as your own personal on-demand Jumbotron so right now we're getting a closer look almost a tour of the court sort of seeing eye to eye with some of the players outfitting NBA players with a nerdy looking device is actually a natural fit for the Kings which is owned by vivec Randolph a a successful tech nor the team has gained a reputation for embracing tech it's accepting bitcoins the digital currency and is experimenting with oculus rift the virtual headset and drone camps YF station cameras cameras anymore when we can have a drone operating giving somebody a unique perspective a new perspective from any angle imaginable and that's part of what drones are about they called me mr. Google crowd optic has partnered with other teams including the San Jose Earthquakes and Stanford basketball but like any startup treading new terrain its facing challenges connectivity and preserving image quality are some of the issues try to that Google glass thing but if they solve those problems crowd optic is likely to score big with fans in Sacramento I'm Sumida cm CBS News