A pair of scissors in one hand and the NCAA tournament championship game net in the other, North Carolina coach Roy Williams stood on the ladder waving after the Tar Heels had beaten Gonzaga. Virtual reality viewers were able to come face to face with Williams in that moment. The NCAA March Madness Live VR […]
Prior to this weekend’s Final Four semifinal matchups, Twitter and all four schools launched their own auto-response video cards for when fans Tweet at the teams’ basketball Twitter handles. According to social media company, it’s the first time sports teams have directly replied to users in this fashion. Starting on Friday, Twitter users who Tweeted […]
Sports fans indulge in one month of madness for the NCAA basketball tournament. Whether or not their schools are in the tournament or not, fans fill out their brackets and follow the action all the way to the Final Four. This year, the NCAA has partnered with Tagboard, a social media platform that uses hashtags to […]
Live virtual reality is back for NCAA March Madness, but it won’t be free. A year after providing VR coverage for last season’s Final Four, Turner, the NCAA and Intel True VR announced on Tuesday that it would provide fans with access to virtual paid experiences for all three Final Four games along with some […]
Oregon was heavily favored as it entered NCAA tournament play Friday with a game against Iona, and before the Ducks took the court, they enabled a part of their closed-door pregame strategy session with coach Dana Altman to be streamed on Facebook Live. Fans fired up for the start of the Ducks’ tournament run could […]
