Skyrim.AI's Expert Series
The Skyrim.ai Expert Series is a comprehensive summer initiative designed to educate and empower professionals through the transformative shift from traditional 2D broadcasting to spatial, 3D sports media. Featuring weekly podcasts, videos, and interviews, this series addresses critical topics including production workflows, AI integration, fan engagement, and industry-wide impacts. Join the conversation and help shape the revolutionary future of sports storytelling.
Episodes
29 episodes
One Stadium, Infinite Broadcasts: The Globalization of Sports Streaming
Sports broadcasting is undergoing a paradigm shift as leagues embrace truly global distribution. In the past, live games were carved up by region, each with a single broadcast feed. Today, tech giants are breaking those silos, streaming games w...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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38:11
From 2K to Real Play: Bringing Video Game Ad Personalization to Live Sports
Sports franchises and broadcasters have long admired the engagement levels seen in sports video games. Now, with spatial sports media, the line between game and reality is blurring, and advertising stands to become more personal and impactfu...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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17:50
Destination Viewing in the Short-Form Era
In the battle for audience attention, the dynamics of sports and short-form digital content are not oppositional but increasingly synergistic. Destination viewing is far from dead, it’s evolving into new forms that blend the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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59:35
Emerging Sports Leagues: Captivating Fans
In the last five years, a wave of up-and-coming sports leagues has surged in popularity, driven by fans’ appetite for fresh, immersive experiences. Unlike traditional leagues, these new sports ventures blend athletic competition with tec...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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40:48
Spatial Sports Media in the Living Room: A New Era of Interactive Viewing
Imagine it’s Sunday afternoon and a family is gathered in the living room to watch a big game on their 75- inch smart TV. Suddenly, a spectacular play happens – say a wide receiver makes a leaping catch at the sideline. In a traditional broadca...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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17:03
Sports AI Agents: Personalizing the Fan Experience
Enter the Sports AI Agent, an AI-powered personal companion that enhances your game-day experience in real time. Think of it as your own digital co-pilot for sports, tuned to what you care about. For example, Skyrim.A...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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21:04
Cartoon Craze in Sports: How Animated Broadcasts Are Captivating New Audiences
Imagine tuning into a football game and seeing Woody and Buzz Lightyear celebrating a touchdown, or flipping on a hockey match where Bugs Bunny is skating on the ice. It sounds like a kid’s cartoon special, yet it’s actually happening in live s...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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18:05
Demystifying Spatial Media Formats: From Point Clouds to Neural Fields
Volumetric video is essentially the art of capturing 3D movement over time, think of it as filming a performance in a way that you can later walk around it. Instead of watching shadows on a wall, as in traditional flat video, we’re capturing th...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:10:01
The RSN Reckoning: How Teams Are Adapting with Direct-to-Consumer Streaming
Remember when regional sports networks (RSNs) were cash cows? That era is ending fast. Cord-cutting has gutted the once-lucrative RSN business as millions of households cancel cable each year 1. Subscriber declines, combined with costly ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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23:21
Engaging Gen Z: Short-Form, Social, and the Future of Sports Viewing
In this episode we will examine shifting consumption habits among Gen Zsports fans and how sports media can adapt. It will note research showing young fans’ declining interest in live full-game broadcasts (only 31% of global fans 18–24 watc...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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14:51
United for Immersion: How the XR Sports Alliance Is Shaping Sports’ Future
Sports fans have always craved deeper engagement, and a new wave of extended reality (XR) technologies promises to deliver it. Imagine experiencing a live match not just on a screen, but all around you – with 3D replays, holographic overlays, a...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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14:34
Hollywood Meets Sports: Production Techniques Crossing Over
Sports broadcasts are starting to look and feel more like Hollywood productions. From cinematic camera work that mimics film and TV, to virtual production techniques straight out of VFX-heavy movies, to AI tools that streamline editing and comm...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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19:53
Spatial Sports Media 101: What It Is and Why It Matters
Spatial Sports Media refers to capturing sports action in three dimensions, allowing fans to experience content from any angle with rich interactivity. In essence, it’s the evolution of volumetric video into a fully immersive format. Unli...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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14:13
The 2024 State Of Spatial Media Report by Skyrim.AI
Explore how cutting-edge technology is transforming sports and media in The State of Spatial Sports Media Podcast. Hosted by experts and thought leaders, each episode dives into the latest trends, innovations, and insights shaping the future of...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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18:56
Fearless Filmmaking with Volumetric, AI & Bold 2024 Predictions - Part 2
We continue our conversation with Snehal Patel (Fearless Productions) as we discuss AI and volumetric production. We also make bold predictions for 2024!
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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38:24
Fearless Filmmaking with Volumetric & More! Part 1
Learn how to be fearless when using new technologies to tell your story! We chat with Snehal Patel (Fearless Productions) about how he converges multiple technologies - volumetric, virtual production, AI, robotics - together to produce a ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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30:18
Volumetric Streaming is here!
In this podcast talk about the revolutionary Volumetric Player Specifications created by the members of the Volumetric Format Association. We discuss how all verticals in the volumetric pipeline benefits from the format, including capture, proc...
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27:00
What do the Taylor Swift & the Floor is Lava have in Common? Hint: Meta Quest 3
In this episode we give our initial reactions to the new Meta Quest 3 XR headset. We also talk about the need for realistic 3D content for all forms of entertainment: sports, concerts, movies and games. Future headsets such as the Apple Vision ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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23:50
NerF, Splats, & Slime! How to Keep up with the Latest Volumetric Rendering Trends
We look at the renewed interest in radiance fields, and how to make sense of all the different variations of volumetric rendering.
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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18:02
Why the Time for New Media Formats is Now
This episode is a can't miss, if you want to know how media formats and interoperability have a positive impact on emerging technology. We discuss how a trade assocations like the VFA benefit everyone in involved, including companies, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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39:01
How are Pumpkins and Volumetric Related?
The season is changing and so is volumetric. In this episode we:Recap the VFA NeRF Summit, including Fearless Productions, Arcturus, and Kino FLO Volumetric Triva! We learn about the origins of XBox Kinect Technology a...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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26:37
SIGGRAPH 2023 Recap - NeRF and More!
We recap the volumetric and NeRF talks and exhibitions at SIGGRAPH 2023. There were lots of research papers, panels and presentations focused on the development of NeRF technology as well as discussions about how NeRF can be fit into the VFX pi...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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12:23
Your Volumetric Guide to Siggraph 2023
Volumetric will make a splash at the Siggraph 2023 computer graphics conference. In this episode we discuss all the papers, panels, and presentations related to volumetric you can expect to see during the conference. If you're attending the con...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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14:59
Volumetric and Virtual Production Business Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of 2. We continue our discussion of scaling and growing the volumetric and virtual production businesses. They give their insights on how to keep up with fast changing tech while maintaining a competitive advantage in a booming space.
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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23:20
Volumetric and Virtual Production Business Part 1 of 2
We learn about the recent boom in virtual production stages and its similarities to the business of volumetric production. We also discuss the importance of educating the industry on new technology and chat about he democratization of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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18:57
