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Live tennis with augmented reality

This is pretty cool - IBM have produced an augmented reality app that lets you watch live tennis on a show court at Wimbledon, even if you've only got a ground pass. All you have to do is download the app onto your smartphone, point your phone at the show court you want to watch the tennis on and you can watch live video of the match.
The release of this app is perfect timing for me as I'm off to Wimbledon tomorrow, so can check out what Andy Murray is up to even though I don't have show court tickets. Winner!

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Submitted by Jheni Osman

Feedback?

Mon, 2010-06-28 15:03
M Paul Lloyd

Any chance of a follow uo report on how well it worked (or didn't) as I'm really interested to know  if it will have far wider applications as hinted at in the magazine?

It worked well, although the

Wed, 2010-06-30 11:06
Jheni Osman

It worked well, although the video feed was a bit slow - that might have been my phone's fault though

Thanks for that

Wed, 2010-06-30 20:44
M Paul Lloyd

Early days but I think its a potential winner.