Fox Sports use Virtual Reality for live football broadcast
Virtual Reality (VR) has slowly been pushing its way into the football world for a while now, and on Saturday it took another step forward.
Fox Sports Eredivisie and Beyond Sports teamed up to bring VR to a Dutch league game between Feyenoord and PSV, the first time the technology has been used for a live football broadcast. Virtual Reality was also used for the network’s postgame show.
LIVE: Feyenoord – PSV is op FOX Sports 7 te zien in virtual reality (via de FOX Sports-app). #feypsv #vr https://t.co/USfieutlxY pic.twitter.com/S0mdLAhy6L
— FOX Sports (@FOXSportsnl) February 26, 2017
The use of a virtual cameraman allowed viewers to watch the match from different angles, as there are no limitations with a virtual camera. The controlling system can change the camera’s position at any moment, meaning the match could even be seen from a player or manager’s perspective.
On top of that, the Feyenoord-PSV matchup was available on the livestream platform Twitch for those without a Fox Sports Eredivisie subscription. With Virtual Reality continuing to trend upward, expect more and more networks to experiment with VR.
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