Method and system for viewing sports content within a virtual reality environment

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising instructions, wherein responsive to executing the instructions, a processor of a virtual reality system performs operations comprising:

• presenting video content in a center window of a virtual reality display of the virtual reality system head-mounted device according to a first point of reference of a plurality of points of reference associated with live channel playback;
• detecting a head-mounted display movement signal;
• presenting data tiles left, right, above or below the center window of the virtual reality display of a the virtual reality head-mounted device by shifting the center window in a direction within the virtual reality display according to the detection of a first the head-mounted display movement signalof a plurality of head-mounted display movement signals;
• selecting a first viewing angle at a second point of reference of the plurality of points of reference for the live channel playback in response to detection of a second head-mounted display movement signal of the plurality of head-mounted display movement signals video content, the first viewing angle corresponding to a first camera at the second point of reference;
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• presenting the video content in the center window of the virtual reality display according to from the selecting of first viewing angle at the second point of referenceof the plurality of points of reference for the live channel playback;
• selecting a second viewing angle at the second point of reference, the second viewing angle corresponding to a second camera at the second point of reference;
• and
• presenting the video content in the center window of the virtual reality display from the second viewing angle at the second point of reference.

A virtual reality apparatus, comprising:

• a memory to store instructions;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory, wherein responsive to executing the instructions, the processor facilitates a performance of operations, the operations comprising:
• selecting a first point of reference of a plurality of points of reference associated with live channel playback in response to detecting a first head-mounted display movement signal of a plurality of head-mounted display movement signals;
• presenting data tiles left, right, above or below the center window of the virtual reality display of the head-mounted device by shifting the center window in a direction within the virtual reality display according to detection of detecting a second head-mounted display movement signal of the plurality of head-mounted display movement signals;
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• selecting a first viewing angle at a second point of reference of the plurality of points of reference for the live channel playback, the first viewing angle corresponding to a first camera at the second point of reference;
• presenting the video content in the center window of the virtual reality display according to a selection of a from the first viewing angle at the second point of reference of the plurality of points of referencefor the live channel playback;
• selecting a second viewing angle at the second point of reference, the second viewing angle corresponding to a second camera at the second point of reference;
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• presenting the video content in the center window of the virtual reality display from the second viewing angle at the second point of reference.