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NHL Plans League-Wide Optical Player, Puck Tracking for 2019-20 Season

At the NHL’s most recent ownership meetings, commissioner Gary Bettman revealed plans for a  league-wide player and puck tracking system that, importantly, will be non-invasive and not require skaters to wear any transmitting chips as they did during a trial at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. Bettman acknowledged that more research and development work […]

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NBA’s Tech EVP Presents Long-Term Vision For Wearables

As the NBA and National Basketball Players Association work to find common ground related to whether players can use wearables during games and what the league can do with the data collected from them, an NBA tech executive is envisioning how those devices might be used further into the future. The long-term goal is to […]

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