Play By Play - Interactive Sports Commentating Experience

About Play By Play - Interactive Sports Commentating Experience

This exhibition provides visitors with a sports commentating experience in front of a live audience.

The Faculty of Arts and Education has developed a custom indoor arena space to simulate the work of a live sports commentator with a commentator booth and a large screen LED panel and seating for a live audience.

Visitors can step into a custom-made commentator booth where they can select a clip from several different sports. After selecting the clip and a difficulty level, visitors provide the live commentary of the chosen sports clip whilst the sports clip and live commentary is broadcast on the large screen in front of a live audience.

At its most basic level of difficulty, the application provides the sports commentator with a pre-written sports commentary and visual aids on the screen. The intermediate level reduces the amount of support and only provides on-screen guidance, such as the players' names on the field. The advanced level provides no on-screen guidance, leaving it up to the commentator to comment on the sports clip. After the experience, the applications prints out a QR code that provides a video recording of the sports commentary for download and sharing on social media.