Experiencing Apple’s Live Yankees–Red Sox Immersive Baseball Broadcast

★ Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red Sox

Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors, has an exemplary review of the experience: I didn't mind the reduced pace of the NBA broadcast, which toggled between cameras under each basket, but Stratechery's Ben Thompson felt strongly that the best option would've been a single camera at mid-court, to completely eliminate the disorienting cuts and replicate being at the game in person. Apple's approach with baseball, at least based on Friday's game, seem…

Experiencing Apple’s Live Yankees–Red Sox Immersive Baseball Broadcast

Last night, I sat down with my Vision Pro and caught the first part of the Yankees–Red Sox game live in Immersive Video. I wouldn’t call myself a baseball fan these days, but I have fond memories of many summer evenings at Tiger Stadium and Wrigley Field, and I was keen to see how Apple’s immersive broadcast compared. Having sampled Apple’s other Immersive Video content, but very little of its sports coverage, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Sitti…

Apple takes first immersive baseball swings from the on-deck circle – Six Colors

Apple’s Friday Night Baseball made its immersive video debut on the Vision Pro Friday, with numerous live immersive cameras scattered around Yankee Stadium for the night’s game between the Yankees and the Red Sox. Apple has produced a lot of immersive video, including some sports documentaries and a set of live L.A. Lakers games, and it’s been clear that the makers of all that content have assumed that immersive video should be produced more or …