Sports and Stadiums – Page 5

Landmarks Shown in 3D

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We can’t resist a good showreel and the Shanghai Media Group Technical Centre shared its work to create a virtual studio for Euro 2020. The group produced the show reel that …

Tags:3D software| Sports and Stadiums| Video Editing & Production

A humongous floating video wall and a virtual badminton game. Image provided by The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Image created with the cooperation of NTT For the Olympics, NTT …

Tags:Olympics| Outdoor Displays| Outside Broadcast| Sports and Stadiums

Intel Webinar 24 August: How Sky Produces and Distributes Live Premier League Matches in High Quality VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Intel is running a webinar that will discuss how Sky in the UK is using Tiledmedia to distribute Premier League football matches in VR, at the best quality. Richard Mills, VR …

Tags:360 Degree Video| Intel| Sports and Stadiums| Virtual Reality

LG Provides Ground-breaking Giant LED Screens For Wembley Stadium

by Artem Alekseenko

One of the first things that visitors to Wembley Stadium connected by EE will see in 2021 are the enormous bespoke LED screens created by LG Electronics (LG) as part of the remodeling of …

Tags:LED| LG Electronics (LGE)| Olympics| Sports and Stadiums

Links Week Commencing 9th August 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. sixteen-nine.net highlights projection mapping at the Olympics …

Samsung’s Infinity Screen

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung released details of a 6,500m² (70,000 sq ft) LED board that has been installed in the Los Angeles SoFi stadium (home of the LA Rams and LA Chargers). The display …

Tags:Outdoor Displays| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Sports and Stadiums

Blame COVID for a lack of AR and VR at the Tokyo Olympics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Protocol blog pointed to Covid as a prime reason for a lack of AR and VR content from the Olympics in Tokyo. USA Today had planned an AR experience around …

Tags:360 Degree Video| Augmented Reality| Japan| Olympics| Sports and Stadiums

Olympic Stadium Berlin Gets Digital Signage Upgrade

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis reports that the Olympic Stadium in Berlin is going through a major refurbishment in preparations for hosting at least six games in the 2024 Euros football championship. The total cost …

Tags:Digital Signage| Germany| LED| Sports and Stadiums

Well Football Didn’t Come Home….

by Bob Raikes

What They Say IBC.org published an interesting article on the TV cameras and technology used to cover the Euro Soccer tournament over the last month. Each venue had at least eight native UltraHD cameras …

Tags:Broadcast| Sports and Stadiums| UltraHD & 4K

Digital experiences for Olympic visitors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat-tip to Invidis of Germany for pointing me to an interesting display application. The Tokyo Olympics will include yachting events and to enhance the experience, a 50M LED display with …

NBCUniversal To Provide Live 4k Hdr Coverage Of NBC’s Tokyo Olympics Primetime Show For First Time

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the US, NBCUniversal will provide live coverage of the NBC broadcast network’s Olympics primetime show in UltraHD resolution with HDR and Atmos sound in some markets. NBC’s primetime coverage of …

Tags:Olympics| Sports and Stadiums| UltraHD (4KTV)

Roland Garros UHD Availability is Mixed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Roland-Garros tennis tournament in Paris has been a popular event for testing new TV technologies (e.g. HDTV via MPEG4 in 2006, 3D broadcast in 2010, UltraHD in 2013 etc) and …

Tags:France| FTA (Free to Air)| Satellite| Sports and Stadiums| Terrestrial (DTT)