AbelCine, which provides products and services to the production, broadcast and new media industries, teamed up with the production house MediaMonks, VR creator Ben Schwartz, Oculus and the NBA to use the ultra-high-speed Phantom VEO VR solution for the first time. The high-speed stereo VR footage was produced during the Slam Dunk Contest in February. […]
Last year, the Boston Red Sox opened a virtual reality dugout on the Kids Concourse at Fenway Park. Fans could see what it was like to be behind-the-scenes with the team as they trained and warmed up for games. Now, the club is expanding its virtual reality experience by adding new a virtual reality batting cage. […]
For episode 11 of the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein, Austin James Smith of VAR Football joins Bram to discuss training football players with virtual and augmented reality. Plus, with the NBA playoffs in full swing, Kevin Durant rejects social media – except for YouTube, esports gamers go to college, and a fitness app that […]
The Chicago White Sox and Dimensional Innovations, have created a catcher’s mask VR headset using Oculus goggles for fans. The catcher’s mask, Sox VR, is a full 360 virtual reality experience for White Sox fans with all of the content created by the organization, White Sox Director of Digital Communications Brad Boron told the Chicago Tribune. […]
Co-founders Jordan Muraskin and Jason Sherwin’s business venture is a well documented brainchild — a neuroscientific blueprint to the cognition of hitting a baseball. Now the duo’s niche platform with a Ph.D. premise is growing up, but not quite dumbing down. deCervo is becoming a product. According to Muraskin, deCervo hails from Columbia University and was […]
