Those who dream of swinging for the fences and knocking the ball out of the park now have that opportunity in the official Home Run Derby VR game presented by Major League Baseball and MLBPA. The game gives you a 360-degree view from the batter’s box of some on the MLB’s most iconic ballparks like Wrigley […]
If you happened to be watching yesterday’s Home Run Derby, you might have noticed something different about the broadcast among Giancarlo Stanton’s mammoth home runs. With Intel running all of the behind-the-scenes work, the technology company embarked on its second run of using their 360-degree replay technology. The three biggest events of this All-Star Week—the All-Star […]
Fans of baseball will now be able to experience what it is like to compete in a Home Run Derby. T-Mobile is using virtual reality at this year’s All-Star Game and Home Run Derby to put fans in the batter’s box. “We’re taking the Derby out of the ballpark and letting fans step up to […]
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has a precarious situation on his hands. He is in charge of a sport that has an increasingly aging audience, but that has recently found itself with a plethora of young talent. Today, 50 percent of MLB viewers are more than 55-years-old. But this year’s All-Star Game had 20 […]
Last week, the MLB announced that they would be making their new Statcast statistics available to the general public. The MLB wanted to release the information just in time for their All-Star Weekend in Cincinnati, and already they are beginning to flex Statcast’s muscles. The Statcast Twitter account revealed a series of videos of the […]
