Enhancing the Experience with Camino Content

If you've followed Daktronics control system technology in the past few years, you've probably heard the name Camino.

Camino is Daktronics powerful 3D rendering system for live-to-air broadcast graphics. It takes traditional display content to a whole new level of animation, automation, and ultimately fan engagement. What makes Camino unique is it offers an infinite array of dynamic content behavior compared to traditional pre-rendered content, opening doors to unique visualizations in both 2D and 3D environments. Our dedicated Camino team of graphic artists, application engineers, and project directors have been hard at work throughout the summer to debut these exciting projects for the 2024 football season:

New England Patriots

The 2024 season saw a complete redesign of the North videoboard Game-in-progress score bar and numerous new pieces of content for both the main and ribbon displays. The revolutionized Camino GIP bar spans the entire length of display and shows rushing, passing, and receiving leaders automatically for the team with possession in lieu of traditional game stats, freeing up Show Control operators to focus on other game situational content. Offensive prompts ("TOUCHDOWN", "1ST DOWN", etc.) trigger with Show Control buttons at the operators' discretion. In-game stats for the Patriots have also been re-designed this season with color-coded bar charts to visualize rushing and passing yards, first downs, and team penalties. Other Camino-driven graphics included player headshots, game notes, injury report, out-of-town scores (with automatic score alerts), fantasy stats, and an array of 12 pop-out overlay graphics that emerge from the videoboards digital framework. Many of these graphics include team logos and colors which are all linked to Displays Studio's Quick Data function for a simple one-stop changeover from week to week during the season.

The out-of-town scores graphics package includes both bar and donut-style charts to visualize stats in the out-of-town games, these are all tied to the color scheme of each team. Additional logic is built into the out-of-town templates to customize the number of games shown on a given day so that the graphic never shows empty game slots based on the number of out-of-town games are being played that day. 

University of Virginia

A bottom game-in-progress bar and right side bar with 3D requested stat slide-out. These two Camino templates frame the Cavalier's game-in-progress look on the videoboard while also utilizing bar charts to illustrate time of possession, passing and rushing yards, and number of first downs. When the Show Control operator chooses to showcase a player's stats, the sideways "VIRGINIA" channel letters open in 3D and out pops the player's headshot and stats. Another Show Control button then runs the effect to animate the player off, sending the headshot and stats back out of view into the "VIRGINIA" letters. These buttons in the Show Control workspace are built on Daktronics' well-known requested stats option where the operator can choose on-the-fly which player in the roster to showcase, eliminating the need for a separate button for each player. Timelines within the Camino project exist for various player positions including defensive back, defensive line, quarterback, running back, and wide receiver with relevant stats for each position.

University of Oklahoma

Game-in-progress and team stats and dedicated Camino template for out-of-town scores are on the main videoboard. The ribbon displays also feature a matching game-in-progress and out-of-town score template. This graphics package was designed by OU's creative team and passed to the Daktronics Camino team for the Camino build. Notably, the team logos feature a circular sticker vibe complete with wrinkles and slightly rotated logos for a unique style. 

University of Colorado Boulder

Folsom Field's main videoboard game-in-progress look brings a pair of sleek, shiny pillars to the left and right of the live video. The right pillar uses bar charts to illustrate rushing and passing yards in addition to the number of first downs. Like all of the projects mentioned above, all team logos and colors are swapped out in a simple update of Quick Data fields in Display Studio.

Our Camino team continues to look forward and begin a record-breaking number of projects for various arena customers for the basketball and hockey seasons. For more information on Camino graphics, engage your regional Applications Engineer or email professionalservices@daktronics.com