Mid-season schedules kept active players from VIP suites. Now, an AI avatar of a retired star provides live, interactive game commentary.
A championship-winning Japanese professional baseball team operates a major home stadium featuring 119 VIP rooms used to entertain high-value corporate clients.
Previous stadium digital transformation initiatives consistently stalled in the testing phase because they failed to genuinely engage visitors....
“The first users of the Microsoft Premium Suite were amazed when they saw Igarashi as an AI avatar. Word of mouth spread and reservations for the remaining 40 games of the season and the entire next season sold out. The AI avatar is creating a broader prospective audience for the entire SoftBank Group.”
Professional baseball team competing in the NPB Pacific League.
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Integrated Azure AI and PaaS solutions to build the AI avatar system for the HAWKS in six weeks.
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Mid-season schedules kept active players from VIP suites. Now, an AI avatar of a retired star provides live, interactive game commentary.
A championship-winning Japanese professional baseball team operates a major home stadium featuring 119 VIP rooms used to entertain high-value corporate clients.
Previous stadium digital transformation initiatives consistently stalled in the testing phase because they failed to genuinely engage visitors....
“The first users of the Microsoft Premium Suite were amazed when they saw Igarashi as an AI avatar. Word of mouth spread and reservations for the remaining 40 games of the season and the entire next season sold out. The AI avatar is creating a broader prospective audience for the entire SoftBank Group.”
Professional baseball team competing in the NPB Pacific League.
Enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, and consumer electronics platform.
Integrated Azure AI and PaaS solutions to build the AI avatar system for the HAWKS in six weeks.
Related implementations across industries and use cases
Fast, unscripted commentary baffled standard tools. Custom AI now learns player names to sync accurate captions instantly.
Fans tracked picks on static lists. Now, a GenAI assistant answers questions with real-time stats, driving 1M+ engagements.
Vague feedback on unrecorded streams slowed fixes. AI now diagnoses live issues instantly, lifting user satisfaction 30%.
Static pages forced users to click endlessly. Now, 150k+ AI agents answer 1.8M inquiries via 24/7, face-to-face conversations.
Rendering latency broke the flow. Now, streaming APIs power photorealistic video agents that respond in real time.
Agency fees bottlenecked operations. Now, 50+ custom GPTs handle tasks from turf analysis to invoicing, saving six figures annually.
Security teams manually correlated threats across 17 siloed tools. Now, AI playbooks instantly validate alerts directly with users.
Analyzing 10TB of weekly telemetry took IT specialists days. Now, engineers ask AI in natural language to instantly retrieve charts.
Custom hardware bottlenecked imaging. A switch to software-defined GPUs now renders photorealistic 3D hearts in real time.