NBA Announces Plans to Broadcast Games in Virtual Reality

October 20th, 2016 by Joe Pantorno Leave a reply »
The NBA is taking a step toward bringing fans further into the action by broadcasting at least one game per week in virtual reality, the league announced Thursday (via Kurt Helin of Pro Basketball Talk).

Working with NextVR, the NBA will be the first major professional sports league to broadcast regular-season games in virtual reality.

Viewers interested in watching contests in this fashion will need a subscription to NBA League Pass and a Samsung VR headset, per Helin.

While fans will have to pay for League Pass to watch games in virtual reality throughout the year, the Oct. 27 matchup between the Sacramento Kings and San Antonio Spurs will be broadcast in VR during a free trial period.

NBA vice president of global media distribution Jeff Marsilio explained why this is a big step for the league and its viewers, per Sam Amick of USA Today:

We’ve got fans all over the world. We broadcast our games in over 210 countries now, and these are passionate fans. But for most of them, they’re not able &mda ...

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