Kasper de Jonge BI Blog

A Post from MS BI blog attends us to a great real world BI app:

Xbox live and EA Sports have teamed up to provide a more realistic gaming experience with the latest NBA live 2009 video game feature, dubbed NBA live 365. The service pulls real data and statistics used as tracking data used by the real NBA teams. The result, the players who are hot or cold in the real NBA, perform better or worse in the game, creating an even more realistic gaming experience, as if the game wasn’t real enough! The service provides a detailed player DNA that includes real-world basketball data on statistics such as isolations, pick and rolls, post ups, spot ups, off ball screens and cuts. What the video from EA Sports to learn how it works.

Pretty cool stuf, great example of using a different kind of intelligence to create an amazing user experience.

Another big implementation with Silverlight that gets my basketball hearth beat faster !

CBS Sports is adding a high-quality viewing option to its March Madness On Demand (MMOD) video player.

The new player uses Microsoft’s Silverlight (CBS has a history with Microsoft and previously used the Windows Media Player). You can stream all 63 tournament games in standard definition at approximately 550kbps, or enjoy a sharper picture with the high-quality player with streams delivered up to 1.5 mbps.

Microsoft’s video technology already proved it can handle big sporting events during last year’s Olympics. Though Silverlight isn’t as ubiquitous as Flash, Microsoft says more than 100 million PCs have installed Silverlight 2.

Source: http://newteevee.com/2009/02/15/cbs-gives-march-madness-gives-a-high-quality-makeover/