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Designing an AI Foosball Experience
Oracle
Premier League
Domain:
Sports Technology
Deliverable:
Scoring Interface, League Analytics
Scope:
Interface Design, API Integration
Scale:
100+ players, Automated system
Overview
At LEAP 2024 in Saudi Arabia, Oracle partnered with the Premier League to showcase an innovative AI-powered foosball experience. The project transformed traditional tabletop foosball into an immersive digital experience where computer vision tracked every movement of the ball at 30 frames per second, capturing live gameplay data and translating it into real-time match statistics.
The system integrated Oracle's cloud infrastructure, AI capabilities, and database technologies to create a fully automated experience. An overhead camera captured gameplay, feeding data through OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE) to Oracle Database 23ai, then to Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) for visualization, and finally to OCI Generative AI (LLM) to produce live scores via a custom Premier League-branded frontend.
I designed and developed the complete frontend experience in Webflow, collaborating with Monterail's engineering team who built the custom APIs connecting the AI backend to the user interface. The project demonstrated Oracle's technical capabilities through an engaging, tangible experience where attendees could play foosball and immediately see their match data visualized with Premier League branding and presentation quality.
Design & Frontend Development
The visual design drew directly from Premier League's match broadcast aesthetic - bold team colors, large typographic scores, and gradient-enhanced backgrounds that recalled the drama of televised football.
The frontend experience required translating Oracle's enterprise AI capabilities into an accessible, sports-entertainment interface that could engage conference attendees within seconds. Working within Webflow's constraints while maintaining the technical sophistication of a real-time data visualization system presented unique design and development challenges.
LEAP Event Showcase (Saudi Arabia, 2024)
The Oracle AI Foosball experience was featured prominently at LEAP 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, one of the world's largest technology conferences. Positioned within Oracle's booth space, the installation attracted consistent crowds throughout the multi-day event.
For context, LEAP brings together 180,000+ attendees including technology leaders, government officials, and enterprise decision-makers from across the Middle East and globally. Oracle's presence emphasized AI infrastructure capabilities and practical applications of cloud technology and the foosball demo served as an accessible entry point for these conversations.
The Premier League branding resonated particularly strongly in the Middle East market where English football has massive following. Using recognizable team identities (Arsenal, Wolverhampton, etc.) rather than generic "Team A" vs "Team B" made the experience immediately engaging for international audiences.