LAS VEGAS, NV. – The sports technology presence at CES 2016 was enormous. Turner Sports put on a tremendous Sports Business Forum that had throngs of crowds filling a huge hall at the Venetian to listen to A-list speakers such as Mark Cuban, Shaquille O’Neal, Maverick Carter, Vivek Ranadivé, Rob Manfred, Adam Silver and more. Then after the forum the Sports Fitness Industry Association put on a Sports Tech Conference with true sports technology experts discussing cutting edge data and virtual reality usage in sports today.
But all of this was just a portion of the sports tech news to come from CES this week. The biggest news came from the numerous partnerships announced and products launched. But with so much going on, it could be hard to keep up. So here are all of those main storylines with links to dive in deeper.
For Second Year In A Row, Under Armour Makes Major Announcement At CES
STRIVR Launches New Division To Create Virtual Reality Content And Experiences
VERT2 Launches To Give Athletes Smart Data On Their Jumping
Spalding And ShotTracker Announce Basketball Technology Partnership At CES
New Balance Launches New Division To Create Digital Experiences And Wearable Technologies For Athletes
ESPN And Red Bull Team Up With Intel To Make Action Sports Content In Real-Time
Major League Baseball Makes Huge Step To Bring The Game To China
Wilson Debuts Connected Football A Year After Their Connected Basketball Launches
Motus Launches A Baseball Wearable System For Hitters And Pitchers To Analyze Their Performance
Wearable Coaching Headphones Launch To Put Olympic Athletes In Your Ear
BRG Sports & 360fly Unveil 360-Degree Video Integrated Smart Helmet
Intel Teaming Up With Israeli Startup To Deliver ‘Free-Dimensional’ Sports Videos
Zepp’s training tech is heading to baseball bats, golf gloves and tennis rackets
Under Armour partners with IBM Watson on artificial intelligence-based coaching
Sensoria to Showcase Microsoft Azure Connected “Smart Garments” That Track and Analyze Soccer Player Movements at CES 2016 in Las Vegas
NextVR Hosts Live Virtual Reality Broadcast of NBA Game and Partners with Qualcomm
EON Sports VR Launches A virtual baseball simulator that could change how hitters train
Polar Team Pro Enhances Elite Level Coaching
Note: this is intended to be a compilation of sports tech stories and not fitness tech stories (there are a ton of those as well). If you have more sports tech stories to include please send us a link.