BBC Sport 360
Free App
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About BBC Sport 360
The BBC Sport 360 app is an experimental service providing sports fans with the chance to experience the Rio 2016 Olympics like never before! Transport yourself to the heart of the action and experience 360 degree views of live and on-demand coverage direct from Rio.
Take in the full 360 video experience on your smartphone in a simple and affordable way by viewing the live coverage via a range of low cost cardboard VR headset viewers.
Key Features
• 100 hours of live 360 Olympic Virtual Reality video coverage
• Multi-Camera coverage to view from different camera perspectives
• Daily 360 video highlights package of previous day’s event
• Share 360 video content with other BBC Sport 360 users
• Notifications when a live event is starting & highlight clips are available
• View 360 using a wide range of low cost VR Viewers. Requires Android 4.1 or higher.
Live Coverage
The Live Coverage available to watch in the BBC Sport 360 App is as follows (UK Time, subject to Change)
• Day 0, 0000-0330 - Opening Ceremony
• Day 1, 1400-1750, 1930-2020, 0100-0450 - Beach Volleyball
• Day 2, 1400-1750, 1930-2020, 0100-0450 - Beach Volleyball
• Day 3, 1500-1800, 2100-0000 - Boxing
• Day 4, 1500-1800, 2100-0000 - Boxing
• Day 5, 2000-2245 - Artistic Gymnastics
• Day 6, 2000-2210 - Artistic Gymnastics
• Day 7, 1300-1930, 2100-2350 - Fencing
• Day 8, 1330-1650 & 0000-0315 - Athletics
• Day 9, 0020-0230 - Athletics
• Day 10, 1330-1610 & 0015-0250 - Athletics
• Day 11, 1330-1640 & 0015-0250 - Athletics
• Day 12, 0200-0505 - Beach Volleyball
• Day 13, 0200-0505 - Beach Volleyball
• Day 14, 1930-2130 - Basketball (Men's SFs)
• Day 15, 1500-1650 & 1930-2200 - Diving
• Day 16, 1530-1730 & 1945-2205 - Basketball (Men's Finals)
• Day 16, 0000-0330 - Closing Ceremony
Terms of Use & Safety
The app, live streams and other related content are provided by the Olympic Broadcasting Services S.L (“OBS”) on behalf of BBC Sport. The App Store and other third party terms of use will apply. Please read carefully and follow your VR/360 headset supplier’s safety information, and the BBC VR/360 Safety Information guidance.
Certain content may not be appropriate for all users and may contain repetitive flashing images (e.g. strobe effects). This app is suitable for people aged 16+ years. This is provided on an ‘as is’ basis. It is part of an experimental project and the BBC cannot ensure the availability or quality of the app and/or its content.
By downloading this app, you agree to the BBC’s Terms of use for the “BBC Rio 2016 Experience”. If the BBC collects any of your personal information relating to your use of this app, then the BBC Privacy Policy will apply.
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What are users saying about BBC Sport 360
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Great use of VR.
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Once I worked out that touching the screen I could drag the view to the right place it's not bad. My footage always starts looking at the crawd rahter than the action. Have yet to work out how to get back to the start screen without exiting the app first.
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Ha ha. Who needs a TV when you've got this app? - Everyone, because the quality and constant drop outs make it useless - and that's just during the opening ceremony!
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A huge opportunity missed by the beeb - this had massive potential but it just doesn't work. At its best it's lagging and jumping, and at its worst it doesn't load the stream at all. Please fix!
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Quite crashy, but mostly OK watching live. However, catch up and downloaded content gives a blank screen when switching to Google Cardboard view on this Samsung S5.
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Just too few events. Tried watching mens volley ball and you're stuck up the corner watching from afar. Can hardly make anything out.
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The stream is working but the quality makes it unwatchable
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Keeps crashing and while it worked for a while it soon froze again
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Codec error when trying to stream
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Just can't get it to work!
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This is real bad! pictures crappie,,,,
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Stable and working on S7. More resolution would be great.
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This is the future of sports broadcasting.... Now!
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Mind blowingly good
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No streams yet, obviously. Can't wait until tomorrow night for the opening ceremony. Can't see a way of using my Cardboard yet but, again, that might change once there's some content.
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No streams available yet (Olympics not started) but the demo video on the home screen works well and seems to show how good an app this will be in the upcoming weeks. Download option looks a winner as well. Will give 5 stars once streaming commences.
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Why advertise that your going to stream the opening ceremony when it's not even on the app when it starts, yes it streams on the cardboard version but nothing not even a link on the Samsung vr headset app, very very very dissatisfied that it was there and then removed at the start of the ceremony
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Hopefully a fix soon, sounds great
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For a 1st effort well done. Needs work
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What's the point unless the camera is in the middle of the action
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Exoplayer exception causes stream to stop on 360 vid. This doesnt happen if cardboard viewer selected. Galaxy S7
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Search doesn't work, impossible to navigate. Very little information.
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Loaded up but when playing vid it opened with errors. Uninstalled.
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Quality could be better but definitely a glimpse to the future. Lack of a way to disable notifications has forced an uninstall
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Waste of time.
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Stream is nice and smooth. Some of the cameras could be better placed but that's not the apps fault. Going into VR mode with Google cardboard results in double vision as the two images don't line up.