★ Emmy Nominated Cycling 2019 — 2024 6 seasons
NBC Sports TV2 Denmark Tour de France

Six seasons of tactical AR on the world's biggest bike race.

How Sandbox powered NBC Sports' Emmy-nominated Tour de France coverage — and became part of the broadcast vocabulary for cycling fans worldwide.

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The challenge

How do you tell a three-week tactical story on live TV?

The Tour de France is a tactical sport disguised as an endurance one. Every breakaway, every bonus sprint, every team strategy decision shapes the race — but most of it is invisible to viewers watching at home. Riders 200 metres apart in the peloton can be playing completely different games.

NBC Sports came to Promotheus with a challenge: how do you give analysts a tool to actually show what's happening in the race? Not in post-production. Not with prebuilt graphics packs. Live, on-air, while the stage is unfolding.

The solution

A live AR environment, synced to the race.

Sandbox ingested live tracking data from the race — rider positions, gaps, speeds, gradients — and rendered a fully manipulable virtual version of the stage. NBC's analysts could enter the AR environment on-air, move riders around, draw paths, run what-if scenarios, and explain decisions in real time.

For TV2 Denmark, the same platform supported a different commentary style and a different audience — without rebuilding the technology. One Sandbox, two broadcasts, two languages, two storytelling traditions.

On-air AR — Stage 14 breakaway analysis
Analyst interface
The outcome

Six seasons. One Emmy nomination. A new broadcast vocabulary.

NBC's Tour de France coverage was Emmy-nominated for sports broadcasting excellence. Sandbox has now powered six consecutive seasons of Tour de France coverage, becoming a core part of how the race is explained to American and Danish audiences alike.

6
Consecutive seasons
Emmy
Nominated — NBC Sports
2
Broadcasters, one platform
"Sandbox gave our analysts something they didn't have before: a way to physically show viewers what was happening in the race, in real time. It changed how we cover cycling."
— NBC Sports broadcast team (representative quote, pending sign-off)
Visuals

Sandbox on-air.

Mountain stage — rider gap visualization
Sprint finish — closing speed AR overlay
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