Intel, Twitter, and The PGA of America have partnered up to broadcast 360-degree videos from the Players Challenge PGA Tour on May 11.
The videos will be captured via Intel True VR technology and broadcast via Twitter’s social network and Periscope live-streaming platform. You’ll also be able to watch the 360-degree content via the PGA Tour VR app for Samsung’s Gear VR. The PGA Tour said in a press release that it will offer “three concurrent VR camera positions” during the event: “one camera at the 17th tee, one on the walkway from the tee box to the green, and one mounted in the water next to the island green.” This is supposed to bring golf fans “closer to the action than ever before” and show off live VR.
Sports could help make VR and 360-degree videos even more common: The PGA Tour said in its press release that Twitter’s distribution of the tournament’s early round coverage has “averaged almost half a million unique viewers each day, more than 70% of which are under 35 years old.”
You’ll be able to catch these videos on Twitter and Periscope by following @PGATOUR on both services. You can also find the PGA Tour VR app on the Oculus website. The festivities will begin on the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass on May 11.
