BBC pilots in-vision text commentary… Eurovision potential?

Something very interesting at the BBC Backstage labs from last week, an interface that takes textual content (in this example from an IRC application) and overlays the messages onto a live TV show via a set-top box.

There’s a demonstration video on the process running overlaid on BBC News (you can view it here), but I know exactly where the BBC should be using this… for an in-vision Eurovision commentary track!

Anyone fancy working on a hack at Over the Air?