In the last few years, the gaming industry has grown significantly by adding millions of viewers and hundreds if not thousands of businesses worldwide. The craze of gaming and esports has increased exponentially over the last decade and now millions of gamers actively take part in competitive esports every day.
As esports is a global phenomenon, millions of fans and gaming enthusiasts are watching esports daily from different localities worldwide. Riot Games popularly known for League Of Legends, Valorant, and Wild Rift recently revealed a new project called Project Stryker, aimed at improving the esports experience for audiences worldwide.
What is Project Stryker?
Project Stryker as Riot says, will be a local facility decked out with state-of-the-art facilities that will feature broadcast production, engineering, event, sound, and graphic design professionals. The first such facility will be opened in Dublin, Ireland where Riot Games has already built a 50,000 square feet long state-of-the-art broadcasting facility.
In the future, two more Project Stryker facilities will open, one in Seattle USA, and another one in the Asia-Pacific region. These locations will be spaced no more than 8 hours apart so that no matter if an event is in São Paulo, Seoul, or Copenhagen, the esports competition will have the support of one Project Stryker facility at all times.
Aside from different locations, each facility will provide production tools to create unique shows across a variety of languages spoken in the region. Plus each facility will be equipped with AR/XR sound stages and multi-purpose insert studios to unlock more creative production opportunities for different games and entertainment teams.
Riot Games and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have also joined hands to power Project Stryker Facilities with AWS servers and infrastructure. Each Project Stryker facility will feature AWS-powered Cloud Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Machine Learning, Cloud Deep Learning, and Cloud Services. Additionally, AWS will be enhancing the content around esports events by providing in-depth stats and insights in real-time. Here’s what fans can look forward to:
- Stats Powered by AWS: A new slate of stats that will show how teams won games in new ways. Fans will be able to vote on the first stats that will be developed before they are released in VALORANT Champions and LoL Worlds this fall.
- AWS Global Power Rankings: Data-driven power rankings comparing all the top teams from around the world. Nearly in real-time, these power rankings will be displayed on-screen during major tournaments as the best pro teams in LoL, VALORANT, and Wild Rift move up and down the ladder with their performances.
- Pick’em Powered by AWS: Esports fans will now be able to participate in bracket challenges and compete for prizes by picking the teams that will make it to championship events.
Project Stryker is a revolutionary project aimed at improving the broadcasting sector of esports. Riot Games aims to boost its local interaction by offering unique content in different languages that can be tuned especially according to the region’s requirements.
