Does it provide the smoke fumes from the flares? So smell-a-vision as well? Is this something foley artists are now going into?
A couple years ago Galaxy did an AR event where you could walk out of the tunnel and onto the field at ground level and look around (it all happened on your phone). You were also supposed to go to different parts of the stadium, like the weight room and see players working out and stuff. Very cool, frankly. LA Comic Con experimented with similar "virtual experience" during the lockdown. I'm a luddite who is terrified of technology and figure this is the first step to getting kids to assassinate foreign leaders while they think they're playing Fortnite Ender's Game style...but there could be lots of cool application for this.
Fascinating. Although all this could also go the way of the 3D TV programing that was being pedaled several years ago.
Lastly, we saw two sports demos: an at-bat from a baseball game at Fenway Park (Phil Schiller’s hands are all over that one), and a scoring play from a Nuggets-Suns NBA basketball game. For the baseball game, the perspective wasn’t even from the stands, but rather from the home team’s dugout, ground level, right behind first base. It’s not quite just like being there, but it’s a lot like being there. It’s more realistic than seems possible. You choose where to direct your gaze: at the batter at home plate, at the pitcher, or out in the outfield. Or above the outfielders, at the scoreboard. For the NBA game, the perspective was courtside, right behind the basket. But better than the actual courtside perspective, because the perspective was slightly elevated above seating level. Fully immersive, fully three-dimensional, and seemingly perfectly to scale. Kevin Durant looked about 6'10", right in front of me. Getting the scale just right is obviously the correct way to present this, but it seems devilishly tricky to actually pull off. Apple has pulled it off. These baseball and basketball scenes were shot by Apple using entirely custom camera rigs, and stored in altogether new file formats.
The app on the AppleTV hardware appears to have quietly added support for multiple game streams and the ability to switch to other games without leaving your current game. UX is quite nice just bring up the onscreen controls select live games and you’re good to go.
yes, I have those devices, however the multi-streams option intrigues me, I also use DirecTV Stream and I hear AppleTV is a better experience for that service and our resident audio guru, seems to be all in on Apple devices and here is the biggest reason, I'm sort of bored with my current tech devices and maybe having another device to play with will reduce the boredom for a bit, I also blame the Galaxy for my current mood
Honestly, I had more fun trying out all the variations of how to add, swap and remove different streams than the game itself. The audio switch in 4up mode was particularly enjoyable.
I didn’t realize the multiscreen option required an Apple built tv. I guess I’m confused on the term AppleTV. It seems to me to sometimes refer to the Apple streaming service and sometimes to an Apple hardware device. What am I missing?
I understand your confusion, I'm confused at times as well and I try to follow all the streaming stuff. my understanding is AppleTV or AppleTV 4k is the physical device and AppleTV Plus is the actual streaming service, this confusion is so widespread that people just say AppleTV and the other person just nods their head in agreement, till they gather enough information to know if the other person means the device or the service, YMMV
Yup. The streaming service and the hardware have almost the same name and people often refer to one when they are actually referring to the other.
The whole + thing has to be one of the laziest, most uninspired branding exercises and everyone just jumped on the bandwagon. Disney+, Paramount+ … I guess at least with AppleTV it had some sort of internal logic. It was the hardware + programming. I still don’t like it … and don’t even get me started on Max.
Keep an eye out for weird looking cameras at Vic St. RUMOR: Apple has been shooting all their AppleTV+ shows in 180 VR.Leaked photo of the 180-camera rig on set. pic.twitter.com/JKZ8mKizSR— David Altizer (@dvdaltizer) July 7, 2023 I have no idea, even if this is real, if this type of camera would work for filming sports.
I noticed listening to the Galaxy radio feed on the LAFC, Apple broadcast, that the crowd noise is sub standard. I actually had to switch back to the Apple TV audio. They could at least open Joe's window or sometting.
I still haven’t figured out how to get a home audio feed using the apple app on my LG tv. I have noticed on this that the seem to have achieved a better balance between the crowd noise and the commentary audio.
Please no. Leave it alone. It's easy hear Joe. Not so much Apple's announcers as the audio feed varies so much from one game to another.
The Philly game broadcast was a mess. Hopefully it's just a one off because I haven't seen any other issues in precious broadcasts. The part that's weird to me is that there seemed to be no local recording, because the highlights don't show the missing feed. ALL highlights only show AFTER our third goal was scored, when it was just the slow mo replay.
It wasn’t to the Heidi game level but when I watched the replay afterwards it was borderline unwatchable. I don’t get it with no inclement weather or act of god how it could go so poorly. I hope this hasn’t happened in other games. I think most not-hardcore fans would just turn it off.
They also finally moved the highlights under the replay. Thank goodness. Especially since I've been on vacation and had to catch up.
That is great news. The old ordering sucked and spoiled the last game I watched on replay. Just as importantly it means Apple is still trying to improve their interface and overall presentation of MLS.