Sony launches FavoriteSpace VR world with Android and iOS apps to connect sports fans to their favorite teams

Sony has launched the FavoriteSpace virtual reality world with Android and iOS smartphone apps to connect sports fans to their favorite teams. Users can enjoy VR replays, content, social games, and tours while interacting with a community of fans. Advanced player tracking technologies enable free-viewpoint camera replays from any location.

The FavoriteSpace VR world is an extension of team efforts to increase fan engagement by helping them get to know their favorite sports teams, bond with fellow fans, and enjoy games better. The cost of hiring tour guides and creating museums to teach fans about team history and highlights is significantly reduced with VR tours in FavoriteSpace that are open 24/7 and accessible worldwide.

Users can customize their avatars with virtual merchandise and uniforms. Fans communicate using non-verbal stamps, body motion, and other effects that bypass language barriers while playing interactive games and quizzes. The social aspects of this customization and interaction help bond fans to their fellow fans and sports teams.

FavoriteSpace utilizes Hawk-Eye Innovations camera technologies to capture player motions during games. The system then recreates the game using virtual player avatars on a virtual sports field for game replays. Users can access these free-viewpoint highlights anytime. Virtual cameras can be positioned anywhere by the teams, enabling camera angles that are impossible in reality for an even more unique fan experience.

The Sony FavoriteSpace apps for Android and iOS are available free to fans in Japan, the UK, and the USA on supported devices. Readers with smartphones that support Miracast can view the FavoriteSpace screen mirrored into a virtual 360" display using AR glasses like the Rokid Max here on Amazon.

Manchester City, a soccer team based in England, is the first sports team to launch in FavoriteSpace with the ‘Man City Virtual Etihad Stadium’.

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