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Virtual Reality And The Elephant In The Stadium

It’s 6pm Pacific Standard Time. You just sat down courtside with three of your closest friends from college. One of them was your roommate freshman year at the University of Arizona. The same one that wore the same pair of dorm basketball shorts for what seemed like an entire semester, and somehow managed to verifiably […]

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Virtual Reality Company Gains Serious Sports Tech Advisory Board Members

NextVR, a California-based technology company, has announced its launch of a new Advisory Board consisting of three inaugural members who will assist in strategizing the company’s future growth.  The board’s members include Doug Perlman, Founder and CEO of Sports Media Advisors, Scott Teissler, formerly of Turner Broadcasting, and the Chair, Peter Guber, Founder and CEO […]

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The Reality of Virtual Reality In Sports

Imagine watching the Yankees play the Red Sox from the Green Monster, then seeing the Kentucky Derby from a front row box at Churchill Downs, followed by sitting courtside at Game 7 between the Warriors and Spurs, and ending your day in Las Vegas at the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight of the century … all from the […]

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Cincinnati Reds Used Virtual Reality Driven Sports Journalism Yesterday

The Gannett Company is now letting their journalists tell stories through virtual reality. The company that owns several of the highest circulating newspapers and television stations in the country released VR Stories yesterday, a free virtual reality app that places users inside of stories. Users can download the app now from the Google Play Store […]

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