Vizrt, a Norwegian company focused on real-time graphics and live production products for content creators, has offered an update to its comprehensive sports analysis offering.
This sees a focus on data, with the introduction of Datacenter and unique data visualization tools.
Viz Libero 8.2 has been brought to market, and Viz Libero Senior Product Manager Edouard Griveaud says, “This release is about getting the most from your data by centralizing data sources while adding more variety, volume, and speed to data visualization and analysis. We have natively integrated data providers used most by our customers into Datacenter, and will be adding more in the coming months.”
Vizrt Datacenter eases the process for operators to connect live data sources to fields in graphics templates without scripting, custom coding, or special knowledge. Operators can also connect incoming live data fields into scenes such as clock-and-score graphics, as well as heatmaps.
Additionally, all data is contained in one repository. The data can be accessed in a single central, connected Viz Libero project.
Viz Libero 8.2 gives eight new native data visualization options, including penalty maps, attack maps, and player and team comparison statistics.
All the graphics in Viz Libero can be presented as either Augmented Reality or Transparent AR.
Meanwhile, AI Cutout has been expanded in this release to enhance any sport, including the notoriously difficult-to-key sports of swimming and ice hockey. Says Griveaud, “We timed an experienced operator. What previously took him 12 minutes to create by manually masking the outlines of players, brushing, and finetuning to remove overlaps, could now be done in 2 minutes, shaving valuable time. This makes AI-based analysis, such as 3D flights, possible mid-match, to give viewers richer insights into the game.”
Viz Libero 8.2 also includes backend refinements and replay integrations to better support sports productions.
