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How Fox Sports will use virtual fans created in Unreal Engine to fill empty stadiums in MLB broadcasts

The Verge

That is unless you’re watching on Fox Sports. Starting this weekend, the network will not only be piping in fake fan audio, but it’ll also be filling the stands with digitally rendered fans for its MLB broadcasts, starting with this Saturday’s Yankees-Nationals game. Not on FOX Sports.

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T-Mobile teaming with Drone Racing League to help emerging sport develop 5G-enabled tech

GeekWire

T-Mobile is investing in DRL through its T-Mobile Ventures fund and the plan is to help the league develop high-speed 5G drones which would be able to stream 3D racing action in real time and provide immersive experiences to fans of the sport.

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Enabling new, data-driven 5G services through a digital network twin

TM Forum

A TM Forum project is using a digital twin network (DTN) to demonstrate how telcos can build network twins to help manage the greater automation required by B2B2x and industrial 5G services. Network configuration is mostly done offline and requires manual interventions, making it slow and inflexible.

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Does AI Enhance Virtual Reality Experiences?

SecureWorld News

Virtual reality (VR) technology has transformed how we experience digital environments. This technology simulates environments with striking realism, providing a highly immersive experience for users, and triggering their visual and auditory senses so they feel that they are truly in the moment in a virtual world.

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5G networks are blazing fast – charging needs to keep up

TM Forum

The hype around 5G has largely focused on network speed but communications service providers (CSPs) know that a different kind of speed is even more important: Speed of innovation. The app provider owns the relationship with the consumer, relegating the CSP to delivering the “dumb pipes” of commoditized network services.

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Those fake baseball fans are creeping people out

The Verge

As part of an attempt to make Major League Baseball games in this weird, coronavirus-shortened season seem as close to normal as possible, Fox Sports decided to create virtual fans , digital versions of cheering people who would react to the games broadcast on Fox the way real fans do. So forgive us if we’re a little wary.

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T-Mobile and Seattle Mariners putting fans on the mound with immersive livestream during practice

GeekWire

Virtually at least. On Monday, a 360-degree high definition livestream — riding on T-Mobile’s wireless network — will stream on the Mariners’ YouTube channel at 1:30 p.m. As T-Mobile puts it, it provides “a glimpse of how wireless networks will transform sporting events in the future through new and immersive experiences.”

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