A YouTube stream of the Australian Open has gone viral for its glitches, but it's also a sign of the future of sports media.

Tennis Australia has followed ... of each player’s unique movement quirks. Their rackets, the court and the balls are also displayed as animated versions. The animation works by having sensors ...

Produced in-house by Tennis Australia, video game-like recreations of live matches featuring digital player avatars have been taking over the internet.

The Australian Open, one of the world's biggest tennis competitions, is taking place in Melbourne right now, and the tournament's use of AI is absolutely hilarious. Due to not having full ...

The Australian Open is getting in on the newest trend in the sports world by re-creating tennis matches in video ... is streaming real-time animated feeds on its YouTube channel that mimic what's ...

2025 Here's the animated version of that racket smash which was broadcast on the Australian Open YouTube page. According to the BBC, Tennis Australia is hoping to make the sport more accessable ...

"By integrating skeletal tracking data with animated characters ... open up even more possibilities — like maybe, one day, giving tennis avatars fingers with which to hold their racquets, as Reid ...

and player actions (like the now-infamous clip of Medvedev smashing the net with his tennis racket). Tennis Australia debuted this technology last year, but it has been much more successful this ...

That includes the main characters, with their big heads, oversized tennis balls and volatile rackets. But part of the success of AO Animated is that its creators are not too precious about it.

Tennis Australia has followed the ... open image in gallery Animated Daniil Medvedev attacked the net with his racket during the first round Players appear to largely have been slightly baffled ...