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Thanks to video games, you can take out your frustrations on everything from a white rectangle to uncanny valley takes on famous tennis superstars. So limber up for a breakneck tour through the entire ...
Clips of Carlos Alcaraz and Daniil Medvedev as Wii avatars have been circulating social media - as the Australian Open has been using computer-generated avatars that look a lot like Wii tennis.
Tennis Australia actually experimented with this during the Australian Open last year, animating matches on one court in an attempt to attract younger viewers to the sport.
The Australian Open don’t own all of their broadcasting rights (fairly common), so they’re live-streaming a Wii Tennis-like version of the matches on YouTube - love this 😂 ...
The Australian Open is re-creating tennis matches with players looking like something out of a Wii game. Here's why these graphics are being used.
Where Wii Tennis-style recreations of live sport do thrive, however, is when things go wrong on the court and AI doesn't quite know how to handle what it sees. During Daniel Medvedev's first-round ...