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The Australian Open’s animated livestreams make players look like Wii Sports characters
Is this real tennis or Wii Sports?
That’s because the tournament has put an animated overlay on some of its matches to avoid broadcast licensing conflicts, making players look an awful lot like Wii Sports characters, as reported earlier by The Guardian. The animated players follow all the same movements as their real-life counterparts as they travel across a cartoon-ish court, while the “whap” of the ball, chatter from the crowd, and commentary all remain authentic. The technology, which the Australian Open first introduced last year, uses 12 cameras to “process the silhouette of the human in real time, and stitch that together across 29 points in the skeleton,” Machar Reid, the director of innovation at Tennis Australia, the organization behind the tournament, told The Guardian.
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