This is how the 360º repetitions will be in El Clásico

Replay 360 technology allows us to offer, thanks to a total of 38 cameras (with 5K resolution at 25 frames per second) suspended above the playing field, unique and innovative repetitions of the plays with a 360º panoramic view with a spectacular view.

James Carwana, CEO of Intel Sports Group; Melcior Soler, director of the Audiovisual department of LaLiga and Óscar Lago, head of production at Mediapro, as official producer of LaLiga, presented this morning in Barcelona accompanied by the players Fernando Morientes and Carles Puyol the system implemented at the Camp Nou by Intel which will allow us to offer 360º panoramic views of the main moments of each match.

The system will be used for the first time in El Clásico between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid next Saturday.

As Melcior Soler has recognized, the use of the most cutting-edge technologies by LaLiga and Mediapro has made it possible to raise the level of emotion in sports broadcasts to a level unknown until now. LaLiga's audience penetration has grown by 8% this season in Spain and by 60% worldwide as a result of the fact that international broadcasters have begun to offer almost all of the matches of each day compared to only two as they had been broadcasting until now. Soler has recognized that “not even the Premier League has an audiovisual perception format and this agreement with Intel puts us at the level of the NBA and baseball in the United States.”

James Carwana has noted that “this technology allows us to see and be in places we could never have imagined.” “We are proud to start working with an entity as innovative as La Liga.”

This 360 video system developed by Intel together with the Israeli company Replay Video Technologies It is already being used in the NBA and the baseball league in the United States. Now, this technology will be permanently installed at both the Camp Nou and Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid.

Replay 360 technology allows us to offer, thanks to a total of 38 cameras (with 5K resolution at 25 frames per second) suspended above the playing field, unique and innovative repetitions of the plays with a 360º panoramic view with a spectacular view.

Any filmmaker's dream

In the opinion of Óscar Lago, "these 360 repetitions are going to give us what all filmmakers always look for: having cameras in the greatest number of places possible. From now on we will have infinite camera positions that will allow us to see all the actions from anywhere in the stadium, both in the stands and on the field of play. Without a doubt, it is the dream of any director."

"Unlike American football, baseball or basketball, football is a totally unpredictable sport with hardly any pauses. In football, no one knows what is going to happen at any given moment. Therefore, it is a challenge to have this new technology in a sport that surprises match by match. The spectator wants to see the match with the maximum number of repetitions and as spectacular as possible, but without stopping watching the match," commented Lago.

Technology from Intel and Replay Video Technologies will be continuously collecting images at all times. In the event of an interesting play, production will choose from which camera to which camera the flight will be offered, the system immediately processing the images that will be offered to the viewer. In addition, thanks to the 5K resolution, from the moment of realization you will be able to choose an area of the action using a digital zoom.

Intel and LaLiga have closed a collaboration agreement for three seasons. As an exchange, the multinational makes this technology available to the Spanish league and in turn, LaLiga will include the Intel logo in the 360 repetitions.

Además de repeticiones 360, en El Clásico Mediapro contará con un helicóptero y cámaras superlentas exclusivamente para seguir hasta el último detalle a Cristiano Ronaldo y Leo Messi, así como detrás de las porterías.