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Once again this year, France Télévisions' MediaLab de l'Information et l'Innovation Numérique proposed a new format for the special edition on the 14th of July : throughout the show, five sequences, live from Place de la Concorde, presented the latest French military equipment thanks to a totally unprecedented augmented reality technology. Using consumer equipment, we have developed an ultra-mobile device that enables virtual image sequences filmed by a moving camera, live, and outdoors: a feat that until now has been reserved for organizations and budgets that are very heavy to implement.

Tour de France 2019: france.tv offers you the possibility to manage and create your own images of your Tour. Thanks to a simple switch, follow the riders from the angle that interests you.

"In a few hours, it will be my turn to realize my childhood dream, to climb into the capsule, placed at the top of the same rocket that has been taking men into space for 50 years: the Soyuz rocket. "Thomas Pesquet

How to define this new media, at the frontier between video games, cinema and television, whose codes and contours are still blurred?

Advertising is necessary to balance the budget of a media company but, for France Télévisions, the user must not be taken hostage and therefore be forced to spend long minutes on advertising which can distract him from a viewing or make him desperate, sometimes to the point of disgust.

During the Roland Garros 2019 tournament, France TV demonstrates live streaming of 8K video to connected TVs and mobile devices using a trial 5G local network deployed by Orange. This blog describes the details of the technical project at a high level. A follow-up blog will be written after the event to discuss the results and explain how the partners are shaping the future of 8K and 5G.