R&D

In line with its commitment to pushing the boundaries of innovation in the media field, the Innovation Department of France Télévisions, in collaboration with the French Tennis Federation (FFT), presented its 2024 edition of RGLAB on the theme of "Tennis and Spatial Computing," featuring mixed reality, 3D, virtual production, and artificial intelligence.

In number, with their own technical, editorial, and community-specific characteristics, it hasn't escaped anyone's notice that virtual platforms are experiencing unstoppable growth. These new territories represent opportunities not only for new editorial offerings but also for advertising. It is these new advertising opportunities that France Télévisions internal advertising agency wanted to explore and showcase through a web series: Virtual Odysseys. Ready for a direct leap to 2035?

For almost 20 years, Roland Garros has provided France Télévisions with an ideal playground for testing the innovative uses and technologies that will shape the television of the future. This year, the Innovation Department, in partnership with the French Tennis Federation, is offering an RGLab on the theme of "Immersive Tennis and AI".

France Télévisions is testing with NOKIA, Aviwest and XD Motion the 5G transmission of a stream from robotic cameras installed on the site of the Vélodrome National de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

For several years, FTV's coverage of the July 14th parade has also been the occasion for a meeting with Nicolas Chateauneuf to discover the innovations of the French army, using Augmented Reality techniques on the screen.

The Digital Department of France Televisions, with the Sports Department, has proposed a new test of Immersive Social Space dedicated to Roland Garros and the universe of Stade 2.

On September 22, France Televisions was part of #DemainLeSport event at the Maison de la Radio. This event, co-organized by franceinfo, l'Équipe and France Télévision, proposed panel discussions around 6 main themes: environment, ethics and Olympism, inclusion-diversity-mixity, technology innovation and data, health-education-youth.

The Digital Innovation Department and the Sports Department of France Televisions open the doors to a new virtual world dedicated to Stade 2 and sports on the social VR platform VRChat. We invite you to join, alone or in groups, to discover the virtual studio of Stade 2 and sports games in virtual reality created especially for the occasion.

On July 14 2021, the Innovation Department team deployed its JPTech solution for mobile and outdoors augmented reality for broadcast at the Satory military camp for the production of two live sequences presented by Nicolas Chateauneuf to present the future French army tools during the morning special program on France 2.

L’équipe de la Direction de l’Innovation réalise, chaque année à l’occasion du tournoi de Roland Garros, un RG Lab au sein duquel sont testées de nouvelles technologies innovantes. Ce rendez-vous incontournable est l’occasion de collaborer avec de nombreux partenaires technologiques français et étrangers, ainsi que la Fédération Française de Tennis, pour inventer et tester les usages numériques de demain et la télévision du futur. Petit récit et grands enseignements des rebondissements et des challenges que nos ingénieurs ont su relever

Recognizing faces, objects, patterns, music, architecture, or even camera movements: thanks to progress in artificial intelligence, every plan or sequence in a video can now be characterized. In the IA TV joint laboratory created October 2019 between France Télévisions and Télécom SudParis, researchers are currently developing an algorithm capable of analyzing the range of fiction programs offered by the national broadcaster

France Télévisions once again chooses the French Open to test the innovations of the television of the future. During this fall edition, France Televisions, in partnership with the French Tennis Federation, shares its vision of tomorrow's uses materialized by spectacular and unprecedented experiments around "Augmented Tennis" within the RGLAB on the site of the international tournament from September 27 to October 11, 2020.