During the Big Ten football championship game between Penn State and the University of Wisconsin, FOX Sports play-by-play announcer Gus Johnson and analyst Joel Klatt took fans behind the scenes of their broadcast on Facebook Live. On the video during the third quarter of the game, fans could see Johnson and Klatt commentating from the […]
This Saturday, the 2016 MLS Cup between the Seattle Sounders and Toronto FC will be broadcast live in virtual reality. FOX Sports and LiveLike are partnering once again to deliver the experience on both iOS and Android and through a fully immersive viewing on Samsung Gear VR and cardboard. According to LiveLike Chief Business Officer, Miheer Walavalkar, soccer […]
As technology continues to exert its enormous impact on sports, the in-game fan experience is extremely important and rapidly changing. Before the advent and mass proliferation of smartphones, teams had the fairly unobstructed attention of their fans. While competing factors weren’t completely absent in the past, the thought process that teams must now consider in […]
In the past, high costs have kept automated production systems from taking off. Seastar Labs, a specialist in advanced video processing technology, and TNO, a Netherlands-based research organization, are teaming up to develop a fully automated production system for sports broadcasting that isn’t quite so costly. The production system will combine Virtual Director, TNO’s autonomous […]
For the first time, college football fans will witness what a referee sees on the gridiron. Through a partnership with GoPro, FOX Sports will provide viewers of the Big Ten Football Championship on Saturday the unique in-game footage from the perspective of the referees. As part of the collaboration, GoPro and FOX worked in tandem […]
