How NextVR Brought Virtual Reality To The Home Run Derby

What does the swing, the sight and the sound of a 430-foot towering home run look like? Some of the MLB’s biggest sluggers, Todd Frazier and Giancarlo Stanton, are familiar with the process.

So what if I told you that you could be placed right in the action, dropped into the moments before and after the perfect swing? Well rest easy, thanks to last night’s 2016 T-Mobile Home Run Derby, you can be.

NextVR, one of virtual reality’s original pioneers, delivered on demand VR that immersed viewers into the sky-rocketing homers of yesterday’s Derby winning swings of Giancarlo Stanton, as well as the other participating sluggers. Partnering with MLBAM, fans were dropped onto the diamond and enjoyed…