FSN Pirates

The aim of this project is to investigate, incorporate, develop, and implement new broadcast technologies to enhance the experience of watching Pittsburgh Pirate baseball telecasts. The team has become acquainted to the existing capabilities of sports broadcasting in the Pittsburgh region through the Fox Sports facilities. The team will investigate the existing panoply of proven, novel, unique, and experimental technologies existing throughout sports internationally and will apply them to baseball telecasts.

The six man team represents four countries and seven languages, as well as bakgrounds in Art, Computer Science, English Literature, Medical Engineering, and Sociology. This interdisciplanary team has 15 weeks during Spring 2009 to deliver ground breaking ideas and deliverables to the broadcasting industry.

Check out our current demo's:

http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/fsn-pirates/demo/fsn_fancam.php

http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/fsn-pirates/demo/pnc_fancam.php

 

 

 

 

The Team


suits up for their trip to the Heinz History Center Baseball visit.