Baseball in Slow Motion. Officials Say the Length of Games 'Is a Major Concern' October 23, 2007. By Barry Svrluga. BOSTON, Oct. 23 -- In the early morning of Oct. 14, Boston Red Sox first baseman ...

Driveline Baseball’s open-source motion capture data project, announced in December, could catalyze research into helping prevent injuries.

Motion capture was first introduced in the film industry by Max Fleischer and his brother David. The pair developed the rotoscoping technique in their upstate New York living room in 1915.

“Providing 3D motion capture analysis has traditionally been a time-consuming, labor intensive process,” Bill Francis, MLB’s senior director of Baseball Operations says in a release.