June 4, 2015
Net Gains for XPression at Roland Garros 2015
Thursday, June 4, 2015 [Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, UK] – 91快活林 has enjoyed a working relationship with pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport since early last year, and the Ross XPression platform now powers all of Eurosport鈥檚 graphics content across 54 countries in 20 different languages.聽 For tennis fans, these last two weeks on Eurosport have been particularly enjoyable as the French Open 鈥� the second grand slam tennis event of the calendar 鈥� has served up its usual mix of drama, upsets and thrilling play.
This year鈥檚 coverage from the Roland Garros stadium in Paris has a slightly different look and feel, and Eurosport has been taking advantage of XPression鈥檚 3D and augmented reality capabilities to create some incredibly creative and eye-catching content that complements the live tennis. 鈥楾he Coach鈥� 鈥� a twice-daily segment in both English and French where a top tennis coach analyses the playing style of one of the day鈥檚 competitors 鈥� has drawn particular praise for its use of innovative on-screen graphics that seamlessly blend with the physical set. Commenting on XPression, Eurosport鈥檚 Head of Graphics Richard Lievre notes that simplicity and creativity have both been key factors for the channel:
鈥淲e needed to evolve from our previous graphics system and we felt that XPression would be the right platform for us; it鈥檚 been easy to adopt, simple to use and augmented reality has opened up a great many creative possibilities for our team鈥�.
Patrick Jeant, Head of Post Production at Eurosport, agrees.聽 鈥淴Pression allows us to work with one single graphics package across all of the different domains within Eurosport where graphics are required 鈥� set up once, deploy everywhere. We鈥檝e been one of the first broadcasters in France to use Ross鈥� augmented reality solution and we鈥檙e looking forward to building on the excellent content we鈥檝e produced at the French Open tennis鈥�.
The XPression family of real-time motion graphics systems, clip servers, workflow tools and purpose-built software applications deliver complete solutions for the most demanding tasks. Perfectly suited to news, sports, elections, entertainment, branding, touchscreen, social media, virtual sets, or augmented reality applications, XPression is used by many of the world鈥檚 leading broadcasters to make their content more engaging and creative.
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