France Televisions explores immersive tennis at Roland Garros

This will be an opportunity for the Innovation Department and the editorial teams of the Sports Department to test, during the tournament, the evolution of these new formats and to evaluate their potential within France Télévisions' future offerings.

Game replays on immersive spaces in motion capture

Two demonstrators developed by France Télévision's Innovation teams will allow to relive real game sequences captured on the Philippe Chatrier court by having the exact position of the players on the court and the precise trajectory of the ball. These demonstrators will be presented on the following platforms:
          - On VRChat, in full motion capture, thanks to the technology of the company GVCap (available on VR headset and PC)
          - On Roblox, with the center of mass tracking technology of the company Hawk-Eye (available on mobile, tablet and PC)

Volumetric video on immersive devices

The technical tennis movements were captured in volumetric video thanks to the HOLOSYS, a technology developed by 4Dviews. These 3D tennis movements are viewable from different angles and at different speeds. They will be displayed on two immersive visualization devices :
        - On a VR headset within the Philippe Chatrier court modeled in 3D
        - On a 3D screen (SRD 27'') from SONY

Virtual assistant

France Televisions explores advances in generative AI and avatars developed by DeepBrain AI. From this collaboration, a virtual human will present, in French and English, the many innovations demonstrated within the RG Lab. The use of this AI Avatar enables France Television to experience and understand how AI is transforming media in Europe and around the world.

Link to the RGLab presentation video : https://youtu.be/_ma7FNb87M0

About our partners :

GVCAP : GVCap is a company founded in 2018 by Guillaume Brousseau, an engineer passionate about technology and tennis. It combines multi-angle video capture and artificial intelligence to reconstruct the action of players in a 3D environment without the use of specific markers or outfits.

Hawk-Eye Innovations : Hawk-Eye Innovations have been at the forefront of sports officiating and broadcast enhancement technology since 2001. Working with 23 of the top 25 sports leagues globally, the world’s biggest sporting events trust Hawk-Eye to make the right call, when it matters most. Hawk-Eye’s vision-processing, video review and creative graphic technologies make sport fairer, safer, more engaging and better informed. Our innovations are constantly changing the face of sports officiating, production, content management, fan engagement in every sport.

4DViews : 4Dviews is the market leader in high-quality volumetric capture systems with its end-to-end studio solution, the HOLOSYS. With more than 20 studios around the world, 4Dviews is dedicated to bringing real humans into digital experiences since 2007.

SONY : Sony Corporation is a creative entertainment company with a solid foundation of technology. From game and network services to music, pictures, electronics, image sensors and financial services – Sony’s purpose is to fill the world with emotion through the power of creativity and technology.

DeepBrain AI : DeepBrain AI humanizes digital interactions with the world's fastest, most realistic virtual humans by providing real-time Artificial Intelligence (AI) and video synthesis solutions that utilize AI to quickly create realistic human-like AI models for use in customer service in industries including media, finance, commerce, hospitality, and education.