wTVision Says Its Graphics Power the 3D Scores in Apple Vision Pro's Live Immersive Sports

Broadcast graphics company wTVision says its real-time graphics and live data systems are behind the floating scores, clocks and stats in some of Apple's live immersive sports on Apple Vision Pro. The Lisbon-based company made the announcement on its website on October 23, and MIXED covered it on October 27.

What wTVision built

According to wTVision, its sports graphics workflows and data connectivity were used to help produce select live basketball and baseball events presented in Live Apple Immersive. The company supplies the graphics layer that appears inside the immersive view.

• Basketball: lower thirds, player rosters, game and shot clocks, and scores shown in 3D within the scene.
• Baseball: a dedicated package with team lineups and statistics placed spatially alongside the live action.
• Tools: its sports graphics controllers and the Basketball CG and Baseball CG applications, adapted for immersive live production.

Live sports data feeds the graphics throughout each event, giving production teams real-time control over what appears and when. CTO Flávio Maurício said the company was proud to bring "our real-time graphics workflow into an immersive live production environment."

The release does not name leagues, teams or specific games. MIXED stresses that it concerns the information layer only, not new hardware or new broadcast rights.

Where immersive sports stands

Apple introduced live immersive Friday Night Baseball broadcasts in August, describing 8K 3D video with a 180-degree field of view, according to MIXED. Those broadcasts required an Apple TV subscription and were offered in nine markets, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany.

Immersive sport is also growing on other headsets. Meta has brought immersive college football to Quest and promised more than 100 live sporting events next year, Road to VR reported.

Why it matters

Floating scoreboards are a small detail, but they show immersive sport moving from experiments to repeatable production. When an established broadcast graphics supplier adapts its standard tools for Vision Pro, it suggests live immersive events are being treated as a workflow rather than a one-off demo, which is what a regular schedule of games needs.