The latest version of Eurosport (Discovery) arrives in Tokyo 2020

The extended reality study Cube is being the axis of the tokyo 2020 coverage by Eurosport (Discovery).

This interactive space benefits from various advanced graphics solutions to represent with great detail an exhaustive analysis of the day. Cube, initiative led by Eurosport, is capable of offering up to seven different video locations immersive in real time and shots beauty 360 degrees with Tokyo as a backdrop. In the same way, it offers other usual characteristics in this type of studies, such as cameras capable of moving through the digital environment and panoramic plans of virtualized space.

Scott Young, Senior Vice President of Contents and Production of Discovery Sports, has defined Cube as "an incredible piece of immersive technology." It is not the first time that it will be used for sporting coverage, since it was tested at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games and in several retransmissions of tournaments of the Great Slam.

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Greg Rutherford, Olympic gold in London 2012 in the long jump test, it has been able to verify first hand the potential of the tool: "The use of this improved augmented graphics technology is very exciting. What has shown me about the technical elements of my winning jump of London 2012 is amazing. I had no idea of these cool things."

"I have clearly seen how my penultimate strides, crucial in the length jump, was much longer than it should have been from the point of view of the technique; and I made a" clutch jump ", which could have been potentially disastrous, since I had previously broken the ischiotibial from this jump position," he says, realizing the viewing options of the Cube system.

Tokyo 2020 coverage

Eurosport is offering wide tokyo 2020 coverage through platforms such as discovery+, Eurosport and Eurosport App. The "Discovery team" is made up of about 150 experts and presenters. With 84 Olympic medals in 198 appearances at the Olympic Games, the team will operate both in Tokyo and from local centers "in the country".

In the words of Andrew Georgiou, President of the Discovery Sports Area: “Our goal for Tokyo 2020 is to free the power of the Olympic Games. An innovative and enveloping technology such as Cube is one of the ways in which Discovery will allow the audience to make this trip with us. Cube will be an important part of what makes our coverage unique, along with an unmatched alignment of sport stars and experts, which cover our key markets”.