MLB’s UmpCam AR gives fans batter’s box views

UmpCam gives MLB a new fan-facing camera angle that places viewers inside the batter’s box, rather than only tracking action from standard broadcast positions. That matters because it shows how the league is using wearable hardware to create a first-person perspective for live baseball coverage. The article frames the system as a technical innovation discussed by Ryan Zander, which points to MLB treating this as a broadcast production tool, not just a novelty. The key signal to watch is whether UmpCam expands beyond this batter’s-box use case into more regular broadcast deployments.