Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco was in the giving spirit this Christmas season as he gifted each of his offensive linemen an Oculus Rift/Alienware virtual reality package. Back-up guard/center John Urschel tweeted a photo of the gift last week, which between the headset and gaming processor retails for a few thousand dollars. Santa Flacco always […]
Baseball has always been known as America’s pastime. It has also seen extreme success in Japan, and Major League Baseball saw over the last few months how the sport fares elsewhere, with a pop-up store in downtown London, baseball’s first retail space in Europe. The store opened in September and is open until the end of […]
Rich Hill rejoice, there’s a world where pitch counts don’t exist, and neither do blisters. But there’s a catch, this world is virtual. New York-based virtual reality company TrinityVR, thinks that its DiamondFX VR platform has what it takes to create “the next generation of Moneyball.” DiamondFX debuted at this year’s MLB Winter Meetings near […]
The National Hockey League will start hosting a series of Centennial festivities in the new year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the league’s first games. The celebration will officially begin in Toronto with the Scotiabank NHL Centennial Classic outdoor game featuring the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs. The NHL Centennial Fan Arena […]
Indiana University will be using SyncThink’s medical device, EYE-SYNC, for a study on lower-impact sub-concussive head blows. The study will be conducted by assistant professor Keisuke Kawata, who has been working on sub-concussion studies and has drawn attention in the linkage between eye movement and repetitive impacts in football players. “Detection of subclinical neural impairments […]
