Legendary Italian soccer club Juventus FC launched a virtual reality app Thursday with four episodes taking users onto the match-day pitch, behind the scenes at training and into the middle of its Serie A championship celebration last season. “The potential [for VR] is enormous for a club like Juventus, where 80 percent of our 50 […]
Fitness bands may be able to track heart rates and step counts pretty well, but a new study suggests they could improve at safeguarding users’ personal and biometric data. Researchers from the the University of Edinburgh found that vulnerabilities in devices that are used by consumers to track heart rate, steps, calories and sleep stages, […]
As the new NHL season begins this week, technology continues to seep into the sport through everything from state-of-the-art coaching tools to century-old statistics. Here are the five most important technology storylines that will have the biggest impact on the 2017-2018 campaign NHL season: 1. Mid-game adjustments: There’s an app for that After a successful […]
When the NHL permitted the use of three Apple iPad Pros on the bench for mid-game video review during last year’s playoffs, the league wasn’t sure how much or even who would utilize the technology. The presumption was that the tablets running iBench, the app designed to carry XOS Digital’s Thunder video product, would generally […]
Only the unidentified voice remains. The baseball game is gone. The drive to the field vanished. That morning’s school day disappeared. The previous weeks, too. Just four words, maybe from the catcher, linger in Jared Schwartz’s memory. “Are you OK, Jared?” Jared, then 12, was standing in the left-handed batter’s box of the local Little […]
