The MLB App is now available for Android XR, so fans with extended reality headsets now have a new immersive baseball experience at their fingertips.
In the extended reality MLB App, users can watch games on MLB.TV just like they would anywhere else. But there are three big new features just for Android XR: Immersive Gameday3D, Multiview for MLB.TV, Spatial video highlights.
Immersive Gameday3D
As fans watch a game on MLB.TV, Gameday3D uses Statcast’s tracking data to bring every play to life in real time, rendering a three-dimensional visualization of the game in a virtual version of the ballpark it’s being played in.
Gameday3D lets fans view plays from perspectives the TV broadcast doesn’t show. Users can follow the trajectory of every home run, track the location of every pitch on a three-dimensional strike zone, see how all the players are moving around the field and more.
That all comes with live data for every play, like pitch type and velocity, batter exit velocity, launch angle and home run distance.
And with the XR version of the MLB App, those Gameday3D visualizations of the game happen right before fans’ eyes, at the same time they’re seeing the MLB.TV video stream.
Multiview for MLB.TV
Fans are not limited to just one game, though. They can watch up to five games live at the same time with the multiview feature for MLB.TV within the app. Users pick one game as the primary one to watch on a large center screen, and two others surrounding it on either side. They also still get to see real-time tracking data visualizations for the main game that they’re watching.
Spatial video highlights
The MLB App for Android XR features unique spatial video clips, which put the viewer in the center of a play by turning it into an interactive 3D highlight. When fans are not watching a live stream of a game, they can see those spatial highlight videos in a carousel on the home screen of the app.
And there’s a lot more than that on the extended reality MLB App. The extended reality platform brings MLB games to life like never before — from the real-time 3D visualizations of the action on the field, to the lifelike renderings of every big league stadium environment, to the Statcast data that lets users dig deeper into every play, to the detailed stats available for every player.
Fans can also customize their game watching experience with additional camera views, a movable screen of the broadcast and expandable live stats.
The MLB App for Android XR is available now in the Google Play Store. It requires an Android XR compatible headset, and an MLB.TV subscription is needed to watch live games.