In October 2016, two months before the Cleveland Cavaliers announced a $140 million renovation plan for Quicken Loans Arena, the team’s chief information officer, Michael Conley, was at a leadership conference in London eyeing a mixed reality technology that he thought would set the project off right. The product, built by a company called Taqtile, […]
The Atlanta Falcons are helping to encourage elementary and middle school kids to get involved in science, technology, engineering and math fields. The team partnered with Georgia Tech and the NCR Corporation to send Ricardo Allen, Justin Hardy, Falcons cheerleaders and its mascot to spend the day with students at the Hollis Innovation Academy in Atlanta […]
About 400 elementary and middle school children from Richmond Public Schools went to the Siegel Center at Virginia Commonwealth University for “STEM in Sports Day” to test out, first-hand, Blast Motion technology, soccer balls with internal chips that track the velocity and spin, the Oculus Rift, Microsoft HoloLens and a litany of other modern sports […]
Once again, the Golden State Warriors have proven that their forward-thinking attitude is not limited to the basketball court. In January, the team once again called upon cutting-edge experience design studio Helios Interactive. Helios has become well-known for successfully using emerging technologies to create interactive experiences in the events and retail space. Helios’ previous work for the […]
Swedish technology leader Ericsson imagined bringing coffee tables to life with sports data visualizations presented via hologram and then went out and did it. Earlier this year Ericsson unveiled its PIERO Augmented Reality software. PIERO’s feature set initially debuted with sports analysts, projecting three dimensional sports data visualizations onto the studio floor. For the home […]
