Source: REUTERS/Arko Datta
[Saba Sports News] Chengdu 2024 Thomas and Uber Cup concluded successfully at the Chengdu High-tech Sports Center. After nine days of fierce competition, the Chinese women’s badminton team won the Uber Cup for the 16th time, and the Chinese men’s badminton team won the Thomas Cup again after six years. As the highest level team event in world badminton, various smart technology products were unveiled during the competition. Among them, China Telecom, the official partner of the 2024 Thomas and Uber Cup, has given full play to its leading advantages and rich experience in digitalization and intelligence to provide full technical support for event system guarantee and event live broadcast, presenting a wonderful badminton event to sports enthusiasts. Extravaganza. In the XR ultra-high-definition immersive display space independently developed by China Telecom, a virtual studio was innovatively created to lead the audience to watch, comment on, and experience the game, offering a new experience brought by XR immersive broadcast. During the Thomas and Uber Cup finals, Chinese badminton Olympic champions Gao Ling and Li Xue Rui also came to the XR immersive virtual studio to live broadcast the event for fans as guest commentators and hosts. In terms of television broadcasts, the latest artificial intelligence technology of the China Central Radio and Television Station is adopted. Relying on the “CCTV Listening Media Large Model” sports event technical and tactical analysis model independently developed by the CCTV, multiple specific angle cameras are set up in the stadium to capture the game. The video signal uses professional algorithms and huge computing power to capture, compare, and analyze the movements of athletes and the trajectory of the ball, calculate the key technical parameters in badminton games in real time, and then present them in diverse formats such as graphics, text, and video on the TV screen. The advancement of technology allows fans to feel the excitement of badminton games more intuitively.