Technology
Spanish football comes back with a developed machine crowd and works
After the Coronavirus pandemic, almost all competition around the world has come to a halt, sports returned gradually to our TV screens. You 're probably going to take what you can get right now if you're as big a sports fan as I do, but the experience that I've seen so far hasn't been as fulfilling. When you watch players celebrate in deafening silence in a cavernously empty German arena, it is a little bit difficult to get excited.
The League, the leading division of football and football in Spain, is adopting an alternative approach.
Last night, a local derby between Seville clubs Real Betis and Seville FC was launched by the League and anyone who looks home could have made a double-take to confirm that the stadium was not fully fitted. In reactive crowd noise, the League collaborates with EA Sports, while the Norwegian broadcasting technology company Vizrt has given the impression of a live audience.
The Athletic tells the audiovisual director Melcior Soler: "We respect very much what the Bundesliga and the Premier League and the NBA are doing, but what we are doing will be different." "We talk of this as a series on television.
