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Hey this is Richard Jacobs from Future Tech Podcasts almost here around the corner technology.

And today I'm speaking with Leland Hedges, Vice President, Product and Marketing, for

Virtually Live.com.

And they have a VR application that allows people to participate in sporting events

in a completely different way than they do now,

and essentially in an augmented way.

How you doing, Lelandeland I'm doing great so can you

give folks a sketch better sketch probably than I could of what virtually alive does

and you know what you focus on. Yeah sure so virtually live is a kind of

unique new technology that's only possible through virtual reality I'll give you the the super brief summary which is we put you at the heart of the action so

You are able to go down onto the field and watch athletes as they're competing or you can be in any race car during a motorsport.

And the more long-winded complicated thing or complicated way of explaining it is we take a different

kind of data that's being captured at these events so we take object data and we use that data to recreate the locations and the movements of the players in real time in

CGI which is like computer graphics.

So we use game engines, like you would see in a traditional video game.

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