Leon Draisaitl, center for the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers, has announced a partnership with wearable technology company Vexatec. The German hockey player will wear Vexatec’s “Agility-shirt” product filled with high-tech tiny textile sensors. The product is fitted with an inbuilt central computing unit, called the 3D-A-Cluster, which the company says can capture, store, and transmit performance […]
In baseball banter everywhere from bleacher seats to barrooms everywhere in between, home runs are celebrated as homers, dingers, bombs and long balls. The pinstriped uniforms of New York’s American League team may say Yankees, but the club is often known as the Yanks, the Bronx Bombers and — now that Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez […]
The Sacramento Kings will be the first NBA team to use Fundraising with Facebook Live with a special livestream during a halftime performance from rapper Lil Jon at Wednesday’s season opener. During the performance, viewers will have the opportunity to easily donate directly to the American Red Cross to support relief efforts. The Facebook Live stream will enable the […]
The NBA has teamed up with Snapchat this season to bring fans attending games a 3D Foam Finger in augmented reality. It’s a location-specific World Lens experience so that in and around NBA arenas, fans can place the home team’s 3D Foam Fingers into their photos and videos. And with augmented reality, it’s such a […]
NEW YORK — The San Jose Sharks are the first NHL team to have its own Oculus Gear VR application. Thanks to the immersive media platform Zeality, the team can use the app to deliver virtual reality, 360-degree videos and photos to fans everywhere and take them right up against the glass at the Shark […]
