Intel’s ambitious plans for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang include producing the largest-scale virtual reality event with official broadcast rights partners such as NBC. The tech giant has pledged more than 50 hours of live programming on its Intel True VR platform spanning 30 events, of which half air live and half on-demand. Among […]
NEW YORK — For more than a month during the snowless summer and fall, the U.S. ski and snowboard jumpers were still out on the slopes of the Utah Olympic Park practicing their jumps all thanks to the recent installation of a ramp lined with an innovative artificial snow and giant downward sloping air bag. […]
Carrying the Olympic torch has long been known as a tremendous honor. With the PyeongChang Winter Olympics two months away, the torch is making its way around South Korea. Interestingly enough, one of the latest to carry the torch wasn’t human. Hubo, a robot created by Professor Jun Ho Oh, received the torch from his creator […]
NEW YORK — In Olympic years, the training never seems to cease, making a heart-rate monitor a constant companion for women’s hockey star Hilary Knight. “I almost feel like it’s glued to my body, essentially, at this point with all the training on and off ice,” she said. Knight, 28, a two-time Olympic silver medalist […]
The two sports might only seem loosely connected: race cars thundering around an asphalt track and sleds speeding down the winding arm of an ice track. But at The Dow Chemical Company, engineers are borrowing from techniques they’ve longed used for NASCAR to make the USA Luge Team quicker at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. A partner […]
