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" Goodbye arrow-filled chalkboards and crude circles on live screens--TV sports analysts of the near-future have a much more high-tech way of going over plays and positions. Researchers at the Innovation Lab at Disney World&amp;#039;s recently revamped ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex have developed an easy way for ESPN&amp;#039;s on-air basketball analysts to go over plays and interact with virtual versions of NBA players. For years, Machinima artists have been using video game engines as cheap and easy ways to animate films. ESPN&amp;#039;s tech follows the same principles, using an Xbox 360 and characters rendered from EA Sports&amp;#039; games to create on-air avatars that real-life broadcasters interact with to demonstrate plays and strategies. Check out the video to see how it works.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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