Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely Set to Improve and Open up the Olympic Broadcast and Viewer Expertise Like By no means Earlier than on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024

In collaboration with the IOC and OBS, Samsung Galaxy expertise will present followers world wide with a brand new, up-close view of the world’s best athletes through the Video games.

 

Samsung Electronics, a Worldwide Olympic and Paralympic Accomplice, as we speak introduced its plans alongside the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) and Olympic Broadcasting Providers (OBS) to revolutionize the Paris 2024 broadcast expertise for viewers and followers. New, first-of-its-kind footage — which will probably be captured and shared with Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely — will play an integral function in opening up the historic Opening Ceremony on the Seine River and the Olympic Video games’ crusing competitions like by no means earlier than.

 

Because the Official Smartphone and Computing Gear accomplice of the Olympic and Paralympic Video games, Samsung will harness its superior cell expertise and 5G connectivity to offer a more in-depth perspective of those iconic celebratory and competitors moments. This new view, powered by Samsung Galaxy innovation, is not going to simply assist Paris 2024 ship on its promise to be essentially the most open Video games ever, but in addition additional Samsung’s legacy of innovation in help of the Olympic and Paralympic Video games.

 

“In an more and more related society, Samsung Galaxy cell expertise has helped deepen and remodel customers’ relationships with the world, wherever they’re. Having been a Worldwide Accomplice for practically three many years, we all know first-hand how necessary it’s to create and allow the identical significant connections on the Olympic and Paralympic Video games,” stated Stephanie Choi, EVP & Head of Advertising of Cellular eXperience Enterprise at Samsung Electronics. “We’re honored to be working intently with the IOC and OBS to offer high-quality footage that will probably be a part of a sequence of firsts at Paris 2024 and convey followers at house and onsite even nearer to the thrill.”

 

In a few month, the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Video games will happen exterior of a stadium for the primary time ever. Paris 2024 will see 10,500 athletes float down the Seine River in designated boats for every nationwide delegation, in what goals to be essentially the most open and accessible opening ceremony in historical past. Departing from the Austerlitz bridge, the enduring parade will observe a six-kilometer route via the centre of Paris, passing a number of the official Olympic Video games venues earlier than the ceremony’s grand finale on the Trocadéro.

 

 

Galaxy S24 Extremely Offers Viewers Entrance Row Seat to the Video games

 

To carry followers at house nearer to the motion and supply an intimate glimpse of athletes’ reactions throughout this once-in-a-lifetime voyage, Samsung will set up greater than 200 Galaxy S24 Extremely smartphones on the bow and sides of every of the 85 athlete vessels on the opening ceremony. The high-quality HDR footage taken with the Galaxy S24 Extremely units will probably be shared and streamed through a non-public 5G community powered by Orange, the official cell community supplier of Paris 2024 in France. Orange will set up greater than a dozen 5G antennas alongside the Seine to create the first-ever 5G standalone community in France, as this pioneering collaboration is designed to make sure a seamless 5G connectivity and viewing expertise for followers world wide.

 

Samsung may even deploy the identical expertise for the crusing competitions in Marseille by putting in the Galaxy S24 Extremely on every competitors boat, letting followers expertise the joys of the race alongside their favourite Olympians and permitting them to really get in on the motion.

 

This offered a complete new set of challenges and months of analysis, growth and testing — in shut collaboration with the OBS and Orange — to ensure video high quality and connectivity efficiency throughout numerous our bodies of water and climate circumstances, which will be actually windy with large waves or extraordinarily scorching and sunny. Samsung and its companions addressed these challenges by leveraging the Galaxy S24 Extremely’s optical picture stabilization (OIS) options, growing transmission energy and putting in relay towers on chase boat to make sure a seamless livestream expertise for viewers.

 

“As host broadcaster of the Olympic Video games, we’re extremely enthusiastic about this partnership with Samsung which is able to permit a really authentic perspective of Paris 2024, evolving the way in which during which followers will expertise the Video games,” stated Yiannis Exarchos, Chief Government Officer of OBS. “Samsung’s newest cell innovation will permit hundreds of thousands of followers world wide to reside and breathe the spirit, motion and emotion of the Opening Ceremony and crusing competitions alongside their favourite athletes in real-time.”

 

 

Samsung’s Lengthy-Operating Contribution to the Video games

This announcement marks the following stage of Samsung’s long-standing dedication, in shut collaboration with the IOC, to drive digital transformation and ship cutting-edge expertise on the Video games by opening up the newest cell improvements to athletes, followers and communities alike. This originated with the primary ‘Name House’ program which allowed practically 2,500 athletes to talk to their households again house free of charge in 1998, when entry to cell phones was restricted. It continued with the Wi-fi Olympic Works (WOW) app, the primary official Olympic info service on cell. The WOW app was launched to Olympic organizers through Samsung-supplied Palm OS telephones at Athens 2004 after which was made accessible to the general public at Vancouver 2010, offering followers with the newest Video games-time updates straight to their cell phones.

 

Along with driving cell innovation, Samsung has additionally contributed to how athletes and workers, join and talk through the Video games-time. Since Nagano 1998, Samsung has supplied athletes and workers with a complete of greater than 120,000 cell merchandise.

 

Particulars of how Samsung will additional leverage its technological capabilities to carry followers nearer to athletes, in one other Olympic first will probably be revealed within the coming weeks.

 

 

About Samsung’s Involvement within the Olympic Video games
Samsung has been a Worldwide Olympic Accomplice because the Olympic Winter Video games Nagano 1998. For over 25 years, athletes and followers have trusted Samsung’s transformative cell expertise to share the Olympic spirit globally and proceed to form the digital way forward for the Olympic Video games for Paris 2024 and past. The corporate’s dedication to the Olympic Motion quickly faces its fourth decade of partnership and extends via Los Angeles 2028. Samsung’s purposeful improvements within the wi-fi communications and computing gear class, together with gear that options synthetic intelligence, digital actuality, augmented actuality and 5G will change the way in which the world experiences the Olympic Video games.

 

About Samsung’s Involvement within the Paralympic Video games
Samsung is a Worldwide Accomplice of the Worldwide Paralympic Committee (IPC) within the wi-fi communications and computing gear class. Ranging from Paralympic Winter Video games Torino 2006, the corporate has proudly supported the Paralympic Motion and enabled athletes and followers world wide to share the thrill and inspiration of the Video games via Samsung’s transformative cell expertise. Samsung’s dedication to the Paralympic Video games will prolong via to Los Angeles 2028 and be celebrated via modern cell and computing experiences powered by purposeful improvements within the wi-fi communications and computing gear class, together with gear that options synthetic intelligence, digital actuality, augmented actuality and 5G.