The
NBA
has an app with more than 10 million downloads that allows, among a wide range, to watch the games on the calendar live, both in the regular season and in the postseason.
It is not a novelty, but nevertheless, the NBA All-Star Tech Summit, within the framework of the All-Star Game weekend to be held in Salt Lake City, was used to present its new version in a theater, with an audience and with live streaming.
What more could you offer?
Well, nobody could imagine it.
Because it is a revolutionary function.
NBA commissioner
Adam Silver
called famous sportscaster
Ahmad Rashad
, who was a football player in the 1970s, to the stage and asked him to stand in the center with his arms slightly extended, while he appeared to be recording it. from all possible angles with your cell phone.
"I'm going to scan your body," he told him as he surrounded him and a giant screen showed a series of horrific vertical and horizontal lines engulfing Rashad, who did his part as "guinea pig" and stood still while the audience watched.
Silver walked around him, registered him in a 360-degree turn, stopped at the face, took in the features, and didn't explain anything else.
With the phone in his pocket, he invited Rashad to watch the screen with the audience and explained what was about to happen.
There was a game between the Utah Jazz and the Los Angeles Lakers.
"Now you are among the avatars. Do you see the players who turn red? Now we choose Horton Tucker," said the commissioner, while the guard was seen in the painted area.
"You're going to show up, doing the same moves as him," he predicted.
After a second of suspense, Tucker turned into Rashad, just as he was dressed onstage.
He seemed teleported.
In full view of all, it was the commentator who was playing instead of the basketball player who was getting ready to perform a spectacular dunk.
All with a level of realism similar to that of the most believable video games.
This is how you can play with the new NBA application.
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The NBA application is free and offers a special effect for which the film industry paid millions and millions of dollars for years.
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