Immersive Media

There is a new way coming out to experience sports in a different, technological way. Using a VR headset, you can get closer to the sport, without leaving your living room. You can go to your favorite sports game, court side, with a friend across the world, with using just a headset.

However, there are problems with VR that are still being worked out. The screen resolution, the wires required to tether to a console, the equipment feeling clunky, all make it still feel like it’s in the beta stage. Cutting from one scene to another is also a problem with being taken out of the story. Sandra Lopez, the VP at Intel Sports and Media talks about these struggles that companies are facing but there has been billions of dollars invested into this area across the years. Through much more research, funding, and time, XR and the counterparts that go along with it, will exceed the consumers expectations, by becoming the next form of entertainment and for educational purposes.

“Use technology as a tool and not the end product”

• By this quote from the CES panel about Immersive Media, what it means is designers have to view the technology available as a port through which to tell a story, and not to rely the capabilities of it. Technology is quickly evolving, so you have to design for the current technology, but plan for the future. You cannot compromise the story/experience being told, or else the audience will quickly be withdrawn for the immersion.

Court side may be an awesome experience at an NBA game, but sideline at a NFL game has a different experience (not best seat in the house).

Kicking out the channels that support sport games. Where is there place in this?

• tv is for a large audience. Don’t think that is going away
• enhance the tv broadcast

Side notes

• audience wants live info during the game
• (in the psvr nba game, you look down and the score is right there)
• sports is more fun to watch together

NEXTVR

• using the psvr to watch multiple sports
• have to pay to watch a sport game live
• They have sport broadcasters specifically for vr
• have to have psvr, windows mr system, daydream, samsung gear, oculus or vive
• can’t switch cameras on your own, automatically switches for you
• text is hard to read in game
• quality looks good but not great
• looking left and right looks a little cut off when it comes to the sidelines
• can you connect 2 headsets to one game? one console?