Last year Getty Images launched its first 360-degree images made for the virtual reality Oculus Rift . At the time the photo agency vowed to become more involved in virtual reality, and wanted to incorporate it into news, sports and entertainment. A year later, Getty Images has created Getty Images Virtual Reality Group, with the hopes […]
Unlike in the United States, Indian television is sparse with the amount of sports coverage that it provides. Only a small variety of sports are actually broadcast on Indian network television, primarily cricket and soccer, and the depth with which they are covered is very shallow. Veqta, a Delhi-based over-the-top (OTT) digital network, are trying […]
For as long as sports have been the world’s primary source of entertainment, their officials — from umpires to referees to judges — have made (or neglected to make) subjective calls, which regularly cause discord throughout the sports world. The introduction of large-scale instant replay in recent years, though, has done much to alleviate this […]
Peter Casey is always in a quest for digital innovation. From his time being the first-ever credentialed twitter correspondent for St. John’s University to his time working all the digital outreach for the New York Knicks to his work with Nike and other brands and now at the helm of all the digital outreach for […]
The game of table tennis is about to get an extreme makeover: technology edition. Thomas Mayer, a student from the University of Design Schwäbisch Gmünd in Germany has developed the future of table tennis. As part of Mayer’s bachelor thesis project in Interaction Design, he designed the Table Tennis Trainer, an interactive ping pong table which creates […]
