How Major League Baseball is using Apple’s ARKit to increase fan engagement

TechCrunch:

Baseball is the perfected candidate for this kind of augmented reality experience for two reasons. First, there’s a lot of downtime — even the staunchest of baseball apologists will cop to the fact that the game can be extremely slow. Second, baseball is a game of stats.

In essence, it’s a bit like watching TV broadcast in person, with information overlaid on the action as it happens in real-time.

I’m of two minds about this. The information junkie in me loves the idea but, as far as a baseball purist as I may or may not be, I’d like to just sit and watch the game. Not to mention how distracting this would be for fans around you.