This misses all the physicality of being there while taking away the benefits of varying camera positions chosen for you by the TV coverage.

If someone could manage the point cloud reconstruction techniques that would let you watch from positions in the middle of the game while there is no camera, they'd be on to something.

Oh, and it's a bad business model - the sports IP owner would want almost all the money.

>This misses all the physicality of being there while taking away the benefits of varying camera positions chosen for you by the TV coverage.

What are you missing? The ability to pay $20 for a water bottle?

And such a view would also work on a normal screen, and could follow the play smoothly. A VR view relies on the user moving their head, rather than letting a camera man do it for them.

Who wants regularly wear headgear to enjoy a sports game?

I can see it being a novelty but not a normal situation.

bunch of people go to a pub to watch a game. they all wear oculus. in the end their cables got so tangled up they had to call firemen

Apart from the people actually playing the sport, they tend to wear a lot of head gear.