Genius Sports and ESPN look to enhance basketball viewing experience
Genius Sports will make its optical tracking technology and video augmentation capabilities available to ESPN for the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship
Genius Sports will wee its optical tracking engineering and picture augmentation capabilities uncommitted to ESPN for the NCAA Division i Women’s Basketball Championship.
Through its Second Spectrum division, Genius will provide ESPN with live, augmented picture feeds, as considerably as the provider’s “Insight” tool.
The American sports electronic network will live able-bodied to select from a suite of data-driven visualisations, including “split-second barb probabilities and distances to 3-point special effects,” among other options.
Mark Locke, CEO of Genius Sports, said: “We are proud to put to work with ESPN, through and through the best-in-class piece of work Second Spectrum does, to give the millions of fans immature and old, an immersive have for March Madness that will band a new course of action non just now for the NCAA Championships, but for all of sportswoman that is played past women the humanity over.”
This comes as the college basketball game flavor ramps up, and broadcasters appear to boost their coverage. Genius Sports’ technology and augmentation solutions testament live used during the Women’s Final Four and National Championship games.
An alternative viewing choice will earmark fans to get Second Spectrum’s enhancements, in add-on to ESPN’s traditional telecasts.
“Expanding our human relationship with Second Spectrum to supporting the Women’s Tournament and their fans is another exciting 1st for us,” said Kevin Lopes, ESPN Vice President, Sports Business Development & Innovation.
“The augmented feeds for the NCAA Women’s Final Four and National Championship spirited testament cater fans with an exciting viewing option that leans into innovational stats and visuals.”