Intel acquires Replay Technologies to offer immersive visualization in sporting events

The Multinational Processors is now the owner of the FREED format, that allows fans to visualize repetitions of games of games in 360º and 3D through television and internet.

The Israeli company Replay Technologies, Specialized in 360º and 3D video technology of repetition of images through television and the Internet with its FREED system, has been acquired by Intel, As the latter announces in his corporate blog, Not to mention the amount disbursed.

The FREED Replay solution is used to visualize 360º repetitions in key plays during sports broadcasts and offer fans a spectacular and detailed vision from any point of view, as currently used in the NBA All-Star (See attached video), which will allow Intel to improve its augmented reality developments for this type of event and establish themselves in this market.

For reproduction in 360º, Replay uses high -resolution cameras that surround the stadium and intensive use of computer graphics to offer viewers that feeling of immersion from any angle during the retransmission of the matches.

As Brian Krzanich has pointed out, CEO de Intel, “It is another step in the so -called sports digitalization. We want to go further in the way of consuming and interacting with fans and media that the simple broadcast of sporting events offering added value. In the recent All-Star we have given fans an immersive 3D visualization experience in television and online that gives an idea of what is to come ”.

Specifically, The company used its high performance computing with the sixth generation of Intel Core and its server technology, To create a seamless 3D video processing using twenty -eight UHD cameras distributed around the court and connected to servers, which allowed broadcasters to deliver videos of the main 360º plays to fans.

From the multinational they also specify that “Intel is the owner of the Freed format, And together we can climb to this new category of sports entertainment immersion, What is attractive to leagues, stadiums, television operators and fans ", as well as replay will continue with the same team, Directed by his CEO, Calm yogrev.

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