It’s November, and the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, are only three months away. Athletes are training vigorously, the host city is planning, and broadcasters like NBC are preparing to cover the 16-day event. In the meantime, another broadcaster, Eurosport, is creating strategic partnerships to reach the millennial audience in the Olympic Games’ […]
Rookie driver Justin Haley took to the circuit for his GMS Racing team this past weekend at Martinsville Speedway with the backing of an innovative sponsor during the Texas Roadhouse 200, a NASCAR Truck Series race. Zeality, a company that provides cloud-based technology for immersive content like augmented reality, virtual reality and 360-degree photo and […]
Spanish soccer club Valencia CF has announced a partnership with MEDIAPRO, creators of a production system that helps teams to analyze their players’ performances. The product, AutomaticTV, is geared towards coaches at all levels of the game, professional, semi professional and amateur clubs. MEDIAPRO’s system has seen seven full high definition (HD) cameras placed strategically […]
After outfitting its technology for a professional soccer team in Germany, PlaySight is expanding its suite of autonomous scouting and coaching tools across the soccer industry. At the Soccerex Global Convention last month, PlaySight co-founder and CEO Chen Shachar pitched the company’s newest cloud-based video technology, SmartField, to European football clubs as a way to […]
NEW YORK — LucidCam is a virtual reality camera that fits into your pocket and enables users to capture footage with a 180-degree field of view. It’s a device that has seen its best applications in sports and training, according to CEO Han Jin. Speaking at a Future of Tennis & Tech session during the US Open, Jin […]