The Fantasy World Of Professional Sports Continues

Major League Baseball is starting to look and sound just like a videogame.

First the league announced they will be using crowd noise from Sony’s MLB video game, and now Fox will be using cutting edge virtual crowds in their broadcasts.

Here’s how it works:

Fox Sports, in its 25th year of broadcasting MLB games, has teamed up with Silver Spoon Animation to create the technology. The company said they are using Pixatope software. Sports Business Journal previously reported on Fox’s virtual crowd tech.

A Fox spokesman told CNBC the network tested the software out at Arizona’s Chase Field about three weeks ago. It passed the test.

At first, we’ll see the virtual crowds in the wide shots only, but eventually the technology will be able to show closeups of players, fans reaching out for home runs and maybe, if we’re lucky, the Kiss Cam.

Fox said the level of detail will even allow the network to control what fan gear the crowds are wearing and how they react to specific plays. For example, the virtual fans may leave the stadium if it looks like the home team is going to lose in a blowout.

Fox is looking to make the broadcast feel and natural as possible, so the technology will be used sparingly, and it’s not expected to be used for every play. Fox told CNBC it’s also “exploring” the use of virtual fans in NFL broadcasts when the season starts in September, but nothing has been finalized yet.

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Professional sports is a bread and circus distraction. A reality created for us to distract from the lie system. For people to fall for how fake their distraction is, just shows where the masses are at mentally. Dumb as shit.

Like this wasn't waiting to be unleashed for a situation like were living in now. No more fans and so then comes in technology that is available to fill virtual fans into arenas and stadiums of Professional sports games. Now we are talking augmented reality really taking over Pro sports. There was already a video game feel to Pro sporting events with the NFL TV broadcasts having CGI for first downs, games in the snow having the field marked by augmented technology overlayed on the actual field and there are those highlighting circles over the players. The NHL had the FOX puck tracking augmented reality shit back in the 90s. ESPN whenever they show highlights of games will use augmented reality video game technology over the actual broadcast of the games.

This is where it's been heading. Making Pro sports faker than ever before. CGI or augmented reality will soon be used to help rig these games. Augmented reality can alter games by determining whether a ball is fair or foul in a baseball game or whether a puck goes in the goal at a NHL game. The possibilities are endless because Pro Sports are now going to be video games. People will accept this and then they can just fake the players using CGI and nobody will mind cheering for a CGI sports team representing their city.