From Lab to Field: Demonstrating Mixed Reality Prototypes for Augmented Sports Experiences

Traditional sports events related data have no direct spatial relationship to what spectators see when attending a live sports event. The idea of our work is to address this gap and ultimately to provide spectators insights of a sports game by embedding sports statistics into their field of view of the game using mobile Augmented Reality. Research in the area of live sport events comes with several challenges such as tracking and visualisation challenges as well as with the challenge that there are only limited opportunities to test and study new features during live games on-site. In this work, we developed a set of prototypes that allow for researching dedicated features for an AR sports spectator experience off-site in the lab before testing them live on the field.