Fox Sports is adding ‘virtual fans’ to empty baseball stadiums

Fox Sports is adding ‘virtual fans’ to empty baseball stadiums

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https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/23/fox-sports-is-adding-virtual-fans-to-empty-baseball-stadiums/

The Toronto Blue Jays may not have a have a home yet this season, but one things for sure: plenty of teams are going to be playing in the uncanny valley this year. The spectacle of a major league baseball team playing in front of an empty has some precedent from places like Korea, Taiwan and Japan, which got a head start on the season while MLB players and owners were hashing out the details of their own shortened 60-game season.

And while a number of teams are enlisting the help of cardboard fan cutouts and artificial crowd noise to dull the pain of an empty stadium, Fox Sports is convinced it’s found a technological solution that’s totally good and fine and not at all nightmare inducing horror show of artificial humanity.

Fox Sports is adding ‘virtual fans’ to empty baseball stadiums

Jul 23, 2020, 4:16pm UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/23/fox-sports-is-adding-virtual-fans-to-empty-baseball-stadiums/ > The Toronto Blue Jays may not have a have a home yet this season, but one things for sure: plenty of teams are going to be playing in the uncanny valley this year. The spectacle of a major league baseball team playing in front of an empty has some precedent from places like Korea, Taiwan and Japan, which got a head start on the season while MLB players and owners were hashing out the details of their own shortened 60-game season. > And while a number of teams are enlisting the help of cardboard fan cutouts and artificial crowd noise to dull the pain of an empty stadium, Fox Sports is convinced it’s found a technological solution that’s totally good and fine and not at all nightmare inducing horror show of artificial humanity.