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Cricket’s IPL To Use Decision Review System For Umpires

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is the latest professional sports league to announce the use of a replay system to assist its officials in making the correct call. The IPL has agreed to feature a Decision Review System (DRS) for the 2018 season, which kicks off in early-April. “Yes, this idea has been going around […]

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MLB Exploring Virtual Reality For Umpire Training

Major League Baseball is exploring the use of virtual reality as an additional training tool for its umpires, SportTechie has learned. The league has not yet reached an agreement with any VR company nor established any parameters for how virtual reality will be used, but virtual reality vendors have started making preliminary presentations to the […]

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Korea Baseball Organization Updates Video Replay System

Instant replay has dominated professional sports and their outcomes, especially over the last decade when replay carried over into baseball. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) wanted to improve its own video replay system by bringing in new technology to replace third-party broadcast feeds. KBO selected nine of Grass Valley’s K2 Dyno Universe Replay Systems with K2 Summit 3G […]

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