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The Australian Open’s animated livestreams make players look like Wii Sports characters

buff.lyThe Australian Open’s animated livestreams make players look like Wii Sports charactersIs this real tennis or Wii Sports?

Mad Mac's

@madmacs.bsky.social

15 Jan 2025

So do we even need real people to play sports any more?

Read the article.

I've seen this before -- with football and basketball -- and I don't care or it. In fact I find it really revolting. I read the article. Is the point that now I can watch the Australian Open on Youtube? If it looks like this, I don't want to! But maybe I'm still missing the point? Care to explain?

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@ifth.is

Sure. This is due to licensing restrictions. The alternative would be not being able to watch an event and only listen to the audio broadcast. But with this you have a 3D “realtime” (2 minutes delay for the processing) representation of the entire event.

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