Panasonic Tests VOGO Sport System For Olympic Figure Skating

Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue of Canada (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)Panasonic has for the past year been testing VOGO’s VOGO Sport video distribution system in Japan, and recently at the Winter Olympics, it continued to try out the multi-video distribution for figure skating.

While figure skating won’t be part of the Summer Olympics, the goal is to explore new ways to distribute live multi-angle videos to the smartphones and tablets of fans in-venue leading up to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

Users can choose the angle they want to see, and at the Olympics, the system enabled instant replays, real-time zooming and slow motion video. That meant that for a quadruple jump, users could break…