Japanese technology company Pixela Corporation has a live virtual reality app with a MagicVision feature that enables viewers to see three different angles simultaneously, and this was made available to viewers of a recent Nippon Professional preseason game.
Pacific League TV subscribers could watch the game between the Chiba Lotte Marines and Yomiuri Giants on March 18 for free in live 360-degree virtual reality using Pixela’s Panomiru app and headsets from either Google Cardboard or Hacosco.
The patent-pending MagicVision feature enabled viewers to choose from multiple screens within a virtual baseball stadium, including angles from each dugout looking at the action with pitchers facing hitters and also an angle from the catcher’s perspective.
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Pixela offered another example of a soccer match that might have panoramic VR views from behind the goal and from the spot where corner kicks are taken to supplement an overall view of the action.
Fans got a taste of the multi-view screens with the baseball game.
なおVR配信も開始しております。普通に見ようとするとこのような画面なのですが、VR用機器で見ると映像がご覧いただけます。#chibalotte pic.twitter.com/yjUWM8BtXL
— パ・リーグTV公式 (@PacificleagueTV) March 18, 2017
皆さまおはようございます。パ・リーグTV公式、ZOZOマリンにお邪魔しています。パ・リーグTVでの360度パノラマVR配信、お楽しみに。 pic.twitter.com/My38jM9Pe0
— パ・リーグTV公式 (@PacificleagueTV) March 18, 2017