Muybridge is preparing an IBC2026 demonstration of a software-based volumetric camera system for live sport. The design uses multiple relatively low-cost image sensors mounted side by side in two-metre bars that can be placed along a tennis court, curved around a golf tee or arranged around a boxing ring.
Instead of moving a physical camera through the scene, the system reconstructs viewpoints in software. That removes the inertia and travel limits of a crane, rail or cable camera and can produce movements at the speed required by the action. Muybridge says the output can be used live or explored later in post-production.
The platform supports SDI, SMPTE ST 2110 and NDI and can connect to conventional RCP, CCU and PTZ control systems. APIs and SDKs expose real-time feeds for AI, virtual sets, tracking and automated production, making the camera array part of the wider production environment rather than an isolated replay effect.
The claims are technically ambitious. Muybridge has not published end-to-end latency, reconstruction resolution, required compute, lighting limits or the number of sensors needed for each sport. Live broadcast value will depend on those measurements and on how naturally the virtual view sits beside conventional cameras.
