Angela Pennyfeather, born and raised in Bed Stuy, has been going to Brooklyn Nets’ home openers for just about as long as the Nets have played in Brooklyn.
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For the 2026-27 Nets’ season, the Barclays Center debuted a revolutionary AI-enhanced replay system that gives fans something totally new: a near-perfect 3D-recreation of the on-court action.
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The tech was on display throughout the game to highlight dunks, blocks and steals.
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Replays were broadcast on the jumbotron and published across the team’s social-media channels.
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“It was pretty phenomenal,” Pennyfeather said.
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“We’ve never seen anything like it.”
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Even her teenage son was impressed — “and he’s always trying to keep it cool,” she said.
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In the not-so-distant future, AI-powered replay systems will allow fans anywhere in the world to interact with the game from perspectives never before possible — say, directly under the hoop at a basketball game, or from inside the batter’s box at a baseball game — and edit their own replay packages.
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“One of our big goals is building the next generation of Brooklyn Nets fans,” Keia Cole, Chief Digital Officer of Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment (BSE), the parent company that owns the Nets, told The Post.
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“This is a tool built to wow them.”
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The Nets’ 360-degree replay system was created by a set of 64 cameras placed all around the arena near the suite level.
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Each records the game from its unique angle, then sends its data to the cloud, where an AI-model built by Alibaba sews the footage together.
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model → record → footage
The process takes only 15 to 20 seconds.
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And the final product — “it’s kind of like art,” Pennyfeather said.
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The Alibaba Group has shown off the technology before, including at the Milan-Cortina Olympics with set-ups around 17 sports.
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“[Basketball] games move so quickly, it’s hard to understand the mechanics and the complexity of a move,” said Cole.
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“This is a nuanced way to slow down the game.”
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As of now, you can only see the 360-degree replay system on the arena’s jumbotron or via the Nets social-media channels, but a Toronto-based startup is working to bring similar views to every screen in America.
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Peripheral was founded in 2024 by Kelvin Cui and Mustafa Khan, then 21 and 22 years old.
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The following year, their company was selected to be a part of the NBA’s incubator program, Launchpad.
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Their work in the incubator culminated in Las Vegas at the 2026 Summer League, where Peripheral unveiled their product to league executives.
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“We were able to show off our full videos for the first time.
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The Raptors [shared] some clips that went viral on X, fans really liked it, and the NBA invested,” Cui said.
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Cui → share → it
Peripheral’s technology works largely the same way as Alibaba’s — but Peripheral’s model will allow viewers more freedom.
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With an Xbox controller, the operator can ‘fly’ to any point on the court or around the arena to see what a play looks like from that point of view.
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play → fly → view
They can even lock into an individual player and replay the game from their perspective.
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Peripheral’s cameras capture not just the volumetric data of how the game is unfolding, but also biomechanical data of how players are moving — down to individual finger joints.
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Cui, who previously worked on self-driving cars at Tesla, sees applications well beyond broadcasts.
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Teams could use the technology to better understand their players’ physical tendencies and develop protocols to prevent injuries.
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Coaches could use it to show their team how a play unfolded from the other side of the court.
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The league could use it to help with officiating.
“The goal is to have all of these applications out this season,” Cui said.
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And the technology is only getting better.
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Less than a year ago, Peripheral was working with a 32 camera set-up, but that number is now down to just 18.
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The AI-model is trained on real games, and the more it records, the faster, cleaner and more efficient it becomes.
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Peripheral is currently working with multiple NBA teams on permanent installations, though the company can’t yet say which ones.
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In the future, the company wants to get the controllers into fans’ hands so they can watch their favorite team in a video game-like environment.
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“There’s a lot of creative opportunities here for people who are producing the game for [television] or on the jumbotron,” Cui said.
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“[But also], this is how we get younger audiences back into live sports — give them an interactive experience closer to what they’re used to in 2K.”
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