Legendary Italian soccer club Juventus FC launched a virtual reality app Thursday with four episodes taking users onto the match-day pitch, behind the scenes at training and into the middle of its Serie A championship celebration last season. “The potential [for VR] is enormous for a club like Juventus, where 80 percent of our 50 […]
Four sports technology startups, including the women-focused fan video brand The Relish and automated highlights clipper Reely, were announced this week to Stadia Ventures’ accelerator program for sports business startups. Winners named to the fall 2017 cohort of the Sports Business Accelerator — Reely, The Relish, RockDaisy and UPGRADED — were pulled from more […]
Imagine whisking through the security check-in at a New York Jets home game just as fast as the people who avoid lines at John F. Kennedy Airport by dipping through TSA Pre. Let’s take this a step further: what if the same biometric identifiers that power security identification systems such as TSA Pre could be […]
Facebook’s entry to sports livestreaming, to date, has been piecemeal and tentative, either simulcasting a broadcaster’s feed of weekly Major League Baseball games or Champions League soccer matches or exclusively producing feeds for minor conference college football games or of sports outside the mainstream like snooker and surfing. Despite protestations from the company that a […]
In the heart of San Francisco, thousands of spectators frequently pack themselves into Aerial Sports League events, eager to see what all the buzz is about. The buzz, in this case, comes from drone propellers, as pilots of all ages fly their tiny aircraft in a variety of settings. “It’s kind of like a sci-fi […]
