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What Sandbox is doing on air.

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ESPN FC analysts using the Sandbox AR table during FIFA World Cup coverage
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Sandbox FIFA World Cup 2026

Sandbox arrives on ESPN's FIFA World Cup broadcast

For the first time, Sandbox is being used during the FIFA World Cup — ESPN has deployed it for richer visual explanations, tactical storytelling, and player analysis at one of the world's largest sporting events.

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Sandbox AR tables — football tactical analysis and TV2 Tour de France rider lineup
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Michael Namatinia Building Markets, Driving Growth May 19, 2026

The Story Was Always There. Now You Can Show It.

How data is transforming sports broadcasting from commentary into storytelling. Sport has always been about the story — not the final score, not the stat sheet, the story. For decades the best pundits answered the "why" with intuition, a frozen frame and a telestrator pen. That era is over.

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Sandbox AR basketball court on NBC's NBA broadcast
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Sandbox June 2026

Sandbox debuts on NBC's NBA broadcast

Sandbox arrives on NBC's NBA coverage — the platform's first deployment in major North American team sport. Live AR tactical analysis brings a new layer of basketball storytelling to American audiences.

NBC Sports Tour de France studio — Emmy-nominated Sandbox coverage
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Sandbox 2024

Emmy nomination: NBC Sports' Tour de France coverage powered by Sandbox

NBC Sports' Tour de France broadcast — featuring live AR tactical analysis powered by Sandbox — was nominated for an Emmy for Technological Excellence. The first time AR-driven cycling analysis has been recognised at this level.

Analysts around the Sandbox AR table
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Sandbox 2026

Promotheus & SegevSport launch Sandbox as a standalone product

Two of Israel's leading broadcast technology companies have formalised their cooperation to bring Sandbox — the live AR sports graphics platform — to international networks and federations.

Sandbox 3D stage-elevation analysis on the Tour de France broadcast
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SVG / NewscastStudio 2025

Nine consecutive seasons: how Sandbox became part of cycling broadcast vocabulary

Feature on the AR analysis environment used by NBC Sports and TV2 Denmark across nine straight Tour de France seasons — and what it changed about how the race is covered.

Sandbox live ball-speed AR at the Beach Volleyball World Championships
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Sandbox Vienna 2023

Sandbox at the Beach Volleyball World Championships

Multi-partner deployment in Vienna integrated KINEXON, Swiss Timing and Hawk-Eye data into a single live broadcast AR layer — a first for the sport.

FIA WEC race cars with Sandbox broadcast graphics
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Motorsport.com 2024

A new graphics language for endurance racing — inside the FIA WEC broadcast

How Sandbox redefined the visual coverage of world endurance racing with real-time car positioning, strategy visualization, and pit-window analysis.

Red Bull Air Race — ghost-plane AR comparison overlaid on the live broadcast
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Sandbox 2025

The "ghost plane": making sequential racing watchable

A behind-the-scenes look at how AR replays of competing planes were overlaid in real time onto the Red Bull Air Race broadcast — turning solo racing into head-to-head drama.

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