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posted by janrinok on Sunday October 23 2016, @07:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-what-I-expected-for-VR dept.

Soon you'll be able to watch NBA games in virtual reality every week. Basketball fans will now be able to really get up close to watch LeBron James slam it home.

In a high-tech alley-oop, NBA Digital and NextVR are teaming up this season to show one game a week in virtual reality. The multiyear deal, announced Thursday, also marks the first time games will shown in VR by a pro sports league on a regular basis.

The tip-off broadcast takes place when the Sacramento Kings host the San Antonio Spurs at the Kings' new tech-splashy arena, the Golden 1 Center on Oct. 27. The games will be available on the NBA's League Pass subscription service, and a full VR viewing schedule will be announced later this month.

Additionally, VOKE VR will stream the Kings-Spurs pregame show on Facebook Live. The Kings own part of VOKE.

Watching these games won't be quite the same as gathering round the big-screen TV or parking yourself in the crowd at your local watering hole. The VR experience requires strapping on a headset that closes out the rest of the world as it pulls you into the action.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @07:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @07:35AM (#417785)

    Gonna suck me some LeBron cock! FUCK YEAH!!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @07:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @07:54AM (#417787)

    He really puts a variety of other words for Johnson in your vocabulary.

    Sacramento is going to see the same problems Portland and Seattle and SF are facing thanks to the arena and the general attitude of a minority knowing what is best for the city (funny since it happens to be a minority Mayor this time, although his predecessor was selling us up the creek just as fast, and if I remember correctly even Brown has been meddling in some Sac County real estate deals.)

    The whole place stinks and is only getting worse by the year.

    Nevermind the rampant homeless camps because they are pissing money away on shit like this and tax breaks for Campbells (who abandoned the city after the breaks were up.) Nestle, who are raping the water supply to sell it back as bottled water at a dollar a pop for a nickel's worth of water (worth its weight in gold now thanks to the drought and mismanagement of the water supply for short term profits of the water districts involved and supplying it to places who should be handling their own by now, notably SF and LA.)

    Sacramento is a microcosm of what is wrong with America, come and visit and see for yourselves! Maybe you can hire a member of the homeless community as a guide to help stimulate the local economy. Lord knows the local government isn't!

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 23 2016, @05:10PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday October 23 2016, @05:10PM (#417892) Homepage

      Sacramento has always been a Wigger-infested dump, but I'd rather our state capitol be there than in San Francisco or L.A.

      On another note, it's good to see that sports (like porn) are ahead of the curve with science and novel ways to bring their media to consumers. And basketball is actually pretty fun to play, even if legendary baseball player Ty Cobb once called it "A bunch of goddamn niggas playin' a faggot's ball-game in underwear."

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @07:16PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @07:16PM (#417929)

        If Pete Rose had played as a contemporary to Ty Cobb, etc he would've made the HoF easily. They were all like Pete back then.

        • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 23 2016, @07:33PM

          by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday October 23 2016, @07:33PM (#417935) Homepage

          Man, your mere mention of Pete Rose brought up all kinds of good baseball memories. My day couldn't have been much better except for the mention of Lenny Dykstra. [wikipedia.org]

          Goddamn shame I can't mod you up, I gave away 3 points mod-bombing Chromas -3 in this [soylentnews.org] discussion.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24 2016, @01:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24 2016, @01:49AM (#418006)

    So where are the cameras (either physically or virtually) for this VR programming? If they are just in some good seat and let you turn your head to follow the action (or check out the cute guy/gal a few rows over) that isn't going to be all that exciting. Now, if the cameras were on the players (special hats or head bands?) that would be something. I want to be in the middle of the action and be able to choose to "look through the eyes" of different players.

    Kind of like in-car cameras have been doing for car racing, for many years now -- maybe they will be next with VR broadcasting?