FOX Sports will be streaming live 4K video from the U.S. Open’s seventh hole this year. Using 5G wireless technology, and thanks to help from the Fox Innovation Lab, Ericsson, Intel, and AT&T, that means fans at home will get ultra high-definition views of the players’ successes or failures on the difficult par-3 challenge at Shinnecock Hills, N.Y.
A pair of FOX cameras will transmit 4K HDR video to a nearby production truck, and then 5G, which provides multi-gigabit speeds with low latency, will be used to get that footage out to viewers. In the future, FOX could use this setup to stream live virtual reality from the U.