Fox Sports on-air graphics and analysis for Super Bowl XLVIII powered by Vizrt

Vizrt announced today that Fox Sports will be using Vizrt's broadcast graphics systems for both pre-game and main telecast on-air graphics for this year's Super Bowl festivities and game on February 2nd.

Supporting the broadcasts will be more than two-dozen Viz Engines, Vizrt's real-time 3D compositing engine, as well as Viz Trio graphical user control interfaces. Augmented reality graphics powered by Viz Virtual Studio systems working in conjunction with NCam optical camera tracking will be used for graphics and effects. In addition, the Viz Libero sports analysis tool will be utilized for enhancing play-by-play coverage. Viz Engines will drive a Microsoft Perceptive Pixel touch screen for displaying Vizrt's social TV tools and real-time stats.

We are thrilled to be able to deliver a high quality production thanks in part to our friends at Vizrt. They continue to provide tools that allow users to push the limits of on air graphics, said Zac Fields, Vice President Graphics & Technology, FOX Sports Media Group.

Some of the graphics systems were used during the four days leading up to the big game inside a temporary studio set up in New York's Times Square, where the city has established Super Bowl Boulevard, a fan-friendly zone encompassing ten city blocks along Broadway. The Vizrt equipment was housed within a control room set up inside a mobile production truck parked on site.

We are extremely proud to be working with Fox Sports on this major sporting event, as they are a very innovative company that always seems to find new and interesting ways to leverage the power of the Vizrt graphics platform, said David Jorba, Executive Vice President of Operations at Vizrt Americas. This year we will see Fox Sports doing very creative things with graphics that others only dream about.

One Viz Trio graphics operator will be dedicated to producing lower third graphics, full screen graphics, real-time stats and interactive charts. A second operator will work the famous Fox Box statistics with Vizrt technology. During Super Bowl week, the average playlist used by each operator (and stored on Viz Engines configured as a central repository) is made up of more than 1,500 graphics items.

Fox has used Vizrt technology for its graphics production for the past two NFL seasons, in the studio as well as onboard the various mobile production trucks. This includes generating the popular Cleatus CGI robot that appears during program interstitials during every NFL on Fox telecast.

About Vizrt Vizrt provides real-time 3D graphics and asset management tools for the broadcast industry - from award-winning animations & maps to online publishing tools. Vizrts products are used by the worlds leading broadcasters and publishing houses, including: CNN, CBS, Fox, the BBC, BSkyB, Al Jazeera, ITN, ZDF, Star TV, Network 18, TV Today, CCTV, NHK, The Globe and Mail, Times Online, The Telegraph, and Welt Online. Furthermore, many world-class production houses and corporate institutions such as the Stock Exchanges in New York and London use Vizrt systems. Vizrt is a public company traded on the Oslo Main List: VIZ, ISIN: IL0010838154.

Press Contacts

Martin Burkhalter President & CEO +41 22 365 75 01 mbu@vizrt.com

Ingrid Agas ster Head of Marketing and Communication +47 9953 3791 iag@vizrt.com

LINK:	http://www.vizrt.com/news/newsgrid/39891/Fox_Sports_on-air_graphics_an...
	See more stories from vizrt

Most recent headlines