Whereas Apple’s sports multiview feature is currently limited to just its Apple TV 4K boxes running beta software, the feature could become much more compelling with Apple’s mixed-reality headset rumored to be unveiled at WWDC 2023 in June.
s its name suggests, this feature allows users to watch multiple games at once, making it particularly useful for MLS Season Pass subscribers or MLB fans who are trying to keep tabs on multiple matches that Apple is streaming at the same time.
In a recent report, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman detailed a few ways Apple plans to position the forthcoming headset to users. Among apps for FaceTime, gaming and fitness was this:
“One selling point for the headset will be viewing sports in an immersive way. The company already offers games from Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball on Apple TV Plus, but it’s looking to make that a richer experience.” He also notes that Apple purchased NextVR, a company that produces sporting events and concerts in virtual reality, back In 2020.
Apple TV Plus broadcasts of MLB games have already explored new camera angles including an “ump view” that lets you watch some action live from the perspective of the home plate umpire.
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MacDailyNews Take: Instructions on how to get Apple TV 4K’s multiview now on your Apple TV 4K (you’ll have to install tvOS 16.5 beta) are here.
See also: Apple’s tvOS 16.5 delivers sports multiview to Apple TV 4K – April 14, 2023
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Oh great…another item to distance the human spirit from reality. I love sports & I enjoy and appreciate advances in tech, but nearly everyday I have to discipline myself re: “screen time.” I don’t think I’m alone, as I read parents enforcing screen-time limitations for their children and many adults have their own discipline regimen. What exemplifies the problem is so much of what is consumed is brain-fill and a hefty portion is simply crap.
Now, we are to take a deeper step into irresistibility as goodies presented on the “screen” will be more immersive and “real.” Sports isn’t the most luscious sector, but let’s add a little violence/terror, sex/kink and a little AI to spice it up and reasons to live real life will drop a few clicks.
“Show me an incentive and I’ll show you the outcome,” is a quote (Chs Munger) that’s been in my head A LOT during these days of strangeness and it will be powerfully manifested with this new tool and, I suspect, for MANY, “screen-time discipline” will be virtually impossible. For those that succumb, maybe a broad implementation of UBI will enable their dream reality to be relatively unhindered?
I have about as much interest in sports as I have in tattoos, gaming, the Kardashians, and dogs. Art. Science. Music. Bring it on.
Neil Postman’s, “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology” and “ Amusing Ourselves To Death” are looking more prophetic with each passing year. If you haven’t read them, this would be an excellent time to do so.