The use of CGI to help cover up empty stadiums is being discussed for when the Premier League returns.
England's top flight is planning to resume in early June but that is likely to see games played behind closed doors.
A lack of fans is known to be a turn off for viewers and Sky Sports have been asked to come up with solutions to that problem.
One of which is using CGI and a senior source at the broadcaster claimed it is "not that hard to implement" following the Premier League's request.
“Even if a club doesn’t sell all of its seats in the Premier League, if you have one stand that’s particularly empty that results in much lower feedback from the viewer,” a Sky source told the i.
“Even when the noise is there, one empty stand really impacts people’s enjoyment of the spectacle.
"When you add the two in – i.e. the ground is totally empty and totally silent, then it really is an odd experience.
“People seeing banks of empty seats and people hearing no noise and no audio effects, for more than a novelty value of one match, there’s a serious concern over what that would do for people’s enjoyment of the matches and their desire to see the sport played behind closed doors.
“People have found closed door matches at international level a bit of a novelty in the past but if you have to watch that multiple times over many months then that will probably devalue the product, which runs the risk of harming of the Premier League’s brand and arguably the broadcasters too.
“It’s not actually that hard to put in CGI moving graphics, even on the side of live action. The challenge is to do it at the scale that’s now required.
"Can you make Old Trafford look full when you’re moving the camera between all of the angles that cameras have to move between?
“CGI is easy to do if you have one fixed camera and you’re doing it in one-fixed zone. But think of 24 cameras essentially giving you a 360 degree view. That’s a lot of tech. The tech exists but the challenge of running it at the latency that’s required has never been done before."
