Hockey fans will have a new vantage point on the action starting at this weekend's NHL all-star game.
The league is teaming up with GoPro to begin live broadcasts of games using the small, durable cameras. During Saturday's All-Star Skills Competition and Sunday's All-Star game, footage will be streamed in real-time from GoPros worn by players and referees, mounted inside goals and placed at various other angles around the rink.
The NHL will continue to use the cameras to broadcast from new angles at regular season games, though an NHL programming executive told The Verge that he doesn't see the first-person video from players happening again beyond this weekend. Instead, the NHL is looking into integrating cameras into player helmets.
"Game broadcasts will use the content to provide deeper layers of storytelling and to showcase the skating, stickhandling, goal scoring and netminding skills of some of the biggest names in the NHL," the company said in the announcement.
The deal is made possible by a partnership the company locked down with Vislink last week that will allow the cameras to stream live high-defintion video for the first time. The two companies worked together to create a small device that hooks up to the HERO4 camera and transmits the footage.
GoPro has made a name for itself through its association with extreme sports. But the deal marks the company's first official partnership with any professional sports league outside of the X Games.
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