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The 7 Most Important Tech Storylines From The 2017 NFL Season

Here are the top seven technology areas that impacted the NFL this season: 1. Football tracking In the fourth year of its five-year deal with the NFL, Zebra Technologies was able to place in tracking chips in all game balls. That enables the gathering of data including the velocity and rotation rate of the football. […]

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Intel’s Winter Olympics VR Coverage Will Air Across Most of Europe

Intel’s comprehensive virtual reality coverage of the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang will now be available throughout much of the old continent via Eurosport’s coverage of the Games. The Intel True VR platform will broadcast 30 events, of which 18 will air live in what will be the first live VR coverage of the […]

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Inside Intel’s Plans To Capture The Olympics In Virtual Reality

NEW YORK — Over the next few weeks, roughly four dozen Intel employees will descend upon Pyeongchang, South Korea in a massive undertaking that will see the technology company transformed into a mobile production house with field crews, producers and virtual reality cameras. In what will be the largest-scale virtual reality event to date and […]

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How The NFL Sees The Future Of Its Games As Immersive Experiences

A future in which NFL games are broadcast in virtual reality comes with plenty of challenges. There’s a large field of play to cover, plenty of data to process, and even as higher-resolution devices can make the live experience watchable, there’s the question of if such an experience would be dramatic for the average NFL […]

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