The NBA app is getting a solution to overlay your self on one other participant in a stay recreation in order that it appears like you’re that player. Sure, it’s as unusual because it sounds.

Right here’s the way it works — at the very least, as proven in an on-stage demo with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Ahmad Rashad. With the NBA app, you’ll be capable to scan the particular person you need to drop into an NBA recreation by strolling round that particular person and pointing your digicam at them. (It appears as if the scanning works like Epic Video games’ RealityScan app, however for individuals.) Then, from a menu, you’ll be able to decide which participant to inhabit, and if you do, your scan will probably be overlaid on prime of that participant as they transfer across the courtroom.

Sadly, now we have only a few particulars about after we can really anticipate this characteristic. Once we requested the NBA, it pointed us to this temporary press launch, which doesn’t say when the characteristic is perhaps launched. Nonetheless, I believe it’s a fairly enjoyable characteristic, and I think about individuals can have a variety of enjoyable slotting family and friends as “gamers” in NBA video games.

The press launch additionally has this fascinating nugget: as a part of different new options coming to the app, you’ll additionally be capable to “transport the sport to digital places.” Possibly I’ll be capable to see the Blazers play on Mars?