Fans who can’t make it to Barclays Center for the 2017 Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament this week can still feel like they’re in the arena. Virtual reality company EON Sports VR and creative agency Twelfthman partnered with Raycom Sports and the ACC to launch the ACC Virtual Reality experience (presented by Citi), which fans […]
Starting with the Big East men’s basketball tournament quarterfinals next Thursday, fans will be able to witness the action from Madison Square Garden “live” in virtual reality. It’s the second consecutive year the Big East is providing fans access to content through the new medium, which will also include the semifinals and finals games. Unlike in 2016, […]
The Indiana Hoosiers will attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the largest collective virtual reality experience at the men’s basketball game against Northwestern on Saturday. The team is distributing 2,000 adidas VR headsets to students. Students who are sitting in the Crimson Guard GA section and the south bleachers will receive the headsets […]
The “one-stop shopping” nature of Facebook Live attracted the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) to partner with the social media platform and broadcast the annual college basketball tournament, the first such initiative of its kind. According to Joe Dwyer, President of College Insider, Inc., the ability for fans to watch video features, full interviews and games […]
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich provided glimpses of the future of watching sports in virtual reality on Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, with press conference attendees getting to watch the Butler-Villanova men’s basketball game live in VOKE VR. Intel in November announced the acquisition of VOKE VR, which had previously presented the […]
