Three members of the Virtual Reality Industry Forum (VRIF) - Sky, Ericsson and Tiledmedia - will showcase an application of virtual reality (VR, or 360 video) synced with live sports at this year's IBC show in Amsterdam.

The demonstration will feature untethered VR headsets and tablets, synced with the main TV screen. The demo will use Viewport-Adaptive streaming technology, which uses Ericsson's HEVC software encoding technology and Tiledmedia's ClearVR tiled streaming technology to optimize the video quality to bandwidth ratio.

Content for the demo will center around sports footage, including Premier League soccer provided by Sky and Formula 3 UltraHD/4K HDR footage provided by Ericsson to illustrate different ways the technology can be used to complement traditional broadcast.