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Series — 5G & Sports: Home viewing experience will change for fans …

Shubbankar Singh
4 min readDec 6, 2020

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Didn’t get tickets? Don’t sweat it. The house seat will be surprisingly great.

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The Change

The above picture is a sample of what one can expect in 5G stadiums or arenas where people can watch sports or entertainment events in enhanced environments. If you are not at the actual stadium watching the real thing in front of you, then with 5G you will have excellent alternatives.

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If you condense the above-shown scenarios to your 55 (say) inch flat-screen TV at home, then you can envision how the experience will be a lot more amplified than what you have available currently. Yes, firms are creating 5G TVs to make this possible. An additional layer to this would be augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) capabilities which would be transformative by bringing the viewers at home closer to the action on the field.

So, who all should care?

The Fans & Local Fan Communities

Ever enjoyed a barbeque in solitude or with friends? Now imagine if the barbeque is being done by a Michelin-star chef in a…

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Shubbankar Singh
Shubbankar Singh

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