See the 2015 NBA All-Star game in VR way

Absrtact: Today, NBA All-Star will be held in New York's Madison Garden, as a Chinese audience, if you want to close to watch this annual basketball feast, in addition to CCTV, this year may have a new option, that is, Samsung last December just sold

Today, NBA All-Star will be held in New York's Madison Garden, as a Chinese audience, if want to close to watch this annual basketball feast, in addition to CCTV, this year may have a new choice, which is Samsung last December just sold the virtual reality helmet Gear VR.

Samsung provided Milk VR services for its virtual reality helmet last year, offering 360-degree panoramic video covering sports and music. The Samsung and NBA All-Star competition will include the three contest, the slam dunk contest and the All-Star Game of the east-west scene. According to official sources, has been in the presence of different locations placed a number of cameras, will be through different seats to ensure the user's "immersive" sense.

According to WIRED, the NBA All-Star Game is working with a number of VR companies, but want to see live, only through Samsung's virtual reality helmet Gear VR. At the same time, Jeff Marsilio,nba's global media operations officer also said that users would be free to watch the game playback in Samsung's VR store in the near future.

The NBA has always been very open to VR, and they have worked with NEXTVR before, and have expressed a desire to try VR in more games and to get a more diverse form of cooperation.