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Big Ten Football Championship First Conference Title Game Broadcast Live In VR

FOX Sports will broadcast the Big Ten Football Championship live in virtual reality — a first for a college football conference title game — on Saturday night from Lucas Oil Stadium,

In partnership with LiveLike, a virtual reality company that has partnered with FOX for two similar college football games this season, FOX is continuing its experiment with providing unique content through the new medium.

From its first game in mid-September between Ohio State and Oklahoma, where it received about 37,000 viewers, there has been technical improvements along with additional interactive elements in the “virtual suite,” minor upgrades in video quality and a repositioning of camera angles.