The NBA app is getting a way to overlay another player in a live game to make it look like you are that playerA. Yes, it is as strange as it sounds.
That’s how it works, at least, as shown in an onstage demo with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Ahmad Rashad. With the NBA app, you’ll be able to scan the person you want to place in an NBA game by walking around that person and pointing your camera at them. (The scan appears to work like Epic Games’ RealityScan app, but for people.) Then, from a menu, you can choose which player to inhabit, and when you do, your scan will overlay on top of that player as they move across the pitch.
Unfortunately, we have very few details on when we can expect this feature. When we asked the NBA, they told us this short press release, which doesn’t say when the feature might be released. Still, I think it’s a pretty fun feature, and I imagine people will have a lot of fun assigning friends and family as “players” in NBA games.
The press release also has this interesting nugget: as part of other new features coming to the app, you’ll also be able to “transport the game to virtual locations.” Maybe I can watch the Blazers play on Mars?
