BallerTV, the leader in youth sports live streaming, is extremely excited to announce a game-changing (literally) technology improvement to our basketball streaming: BTVision.
We spent years listening to our customers and turned their feedback into something great — a new and radically improved basketball viewing experience. We’ve upgraded our AI streaming technology using over 3 years of research so that we can better capture action like:
- Fast breaks
- Quick changes of direction
- Technical free throws
- Long outlet passes
- A solo ball handler walking ball up the court
At the core of BTVision is enhanced ball tracking, not just player tracking. In addition to our standard 720p live streaming video quality, BTVision provides a vastly improved viewer experience, as you can see below.
Together these improvements provide a look and feel that is much closer to professional human videographers, which was our ultimate goal.
“Over the last few years, we’ve been researching better and more efficient ways to capture and deliver sports content. BTVision is the result of those efforts. We were able to solve 3 major technical challenges — how to detect and track the ball, how to frame the content in the best way, and how to move the camera in a smooth and natural manner to resemble quality videographers — all the while processing as efficiently as possible on a mobile device. In the end, it helps us to further connect families and broadcast every game with the same attention and care it deserves in an accessible way.”
— Akshay Chandrasekhar, Director of AI/Machine Learning
Shown above is an example of a quick change of direction that was often difficult for our tracking technology to capture perfectly. By leveraging AI, we’re able to better frame the ball and the players whenever the action is abruptly changing direction.
Interested to see BTVision in action? Check out our upcoming basketball events here.
But that’s not all.
We’ve started a phased rollout of a proprietary new camera lens we call “Beastmode” that will further improve the viewing experience, capturing a wider field of vision so you don’t miss any of the action.
