An animated, life-sized 3-D image of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger appears in an otherwise vacant office in Towson with bare walls and a concrete floor.
Visible only through a special lens, he is surrounded by his teammates in their familiar white, black and gold on a “field” with hashmarks and a game clock.
“Right now, what you are seeing is a holographic football team coming at you and getting into their formation,” says Jim Pietila, CEO of Mixed River, a Towson tech startup that has developed an interactivecomputer program for the Ravens and is seeking to push immersive, off-the-field preparation to new levels....
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-ravens-mixed-reality-20170711-story.html
Visible only through a special lens, he is surrounded by his teammates in their familiar white, black and gold on a “field” with hashmarks and a game clock.
“Right now, what you are seeing is a holographic football team coming at you and getting into their formation,” says Jim Pietila, CEO of Mixed River, a Towson tech startup that has developed an interactivecomputer program for the Ravens and is seeking to push immersive, off-the-field preparation to new levels....
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-ravens-mixed-reality-20170711-story.html
