MLB's AtBat (iPhone app) is using graphics/models from MLB The Show (Playstation 3 game) to substitute for live video (er, they have live video, but you have to pay for it... the "virtual" mode is free)
Compare this with a screenshot of the PS3 game here:
www.co-optimus.com/images/upload/image/MLBtheShow2011-bat...
Back in my NYU days (2004) we were scheming up ways to watch MLB and NFL games on our mobile phones... long before any bandwidth / licensing issues were resolved. We were toying around with the idea of using live-data feeds from games and reproducing the action with 8-bit NES sprites - think: watching the Red Sox and Pats play only acted out with RBI Baseball and Techo Bowl graphics.
How awesome would that have been?!
Having a birds-eye-view of a baseball game MMS'ed to your phone (or even set as your phone's locked-state wallpaper)...
farm3.static.flickr.com/2337/2522551247_b19084ece1.jpg
Or watching an NFL game on your phone or via browser window rendered like this...
www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Tecmo_Bowl_NES_ScreenShot...
These days, while the bandwidth issues are figured out, the licensing issues are not (you still can't watch NFL games via the internet). It's super smart to see people experimenting w/ using PS3 style graphics to get around some of these restrictions.
MLB's AtBat (iPhone app) is using graphics/models from MLB The Show (Playstation 3 game) to substitute for live video (er, they have live video, but you have to pay for it... the "virtual" mode is free)
Compare this with a screenshot of the PS3 game here:
www.co-optimus.com/images/upload/image/MLBtheShow2011-bat...
Back in my NYU days (2004) we were scheming up ways to watch MLB and NFL games on our mobile phones... long before any bandwidth / licensing issues were resolved. We were toying around with the idea of using live-data feeds from games and reproducing the action with 8-bit NES sprites - think: watching the Red Sox and Pats play only acted out with RBI Baseball and Techo Bowl graphics.
How awesome would that have been?!
Having a birds-eye-view of a baseball game MMS'ed to your phone (or even set as your phone's locked-state wallpaper)...
farm3.static.flickr.com/2337/2522551247_b19084ece1.jpg
Or watching an NFL game on your phone or via browser window rendered like this...
www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Tecmo_Bowl_NES_ScreenShot...
These days, while the bandwidth issues are figured out, the licensing issues are not (you still can't watch NFL games via the internet). It's super smart to see people experimenting w/ using PS3 style graphics to get around some of these restrictions.