A lot goes into swinging a bat — swinging it correctly, that is. Every level of the game has become increasingly dependent on analytics like launch angle, exit velocity, bat speed, etc. For refined mechanics you need access to those numbers. That’s why Garmin has created Impact, a bat-swing sensor that instantly delivers metrics and feedback […]
There is a lot of visual information in the world we inhabit, and Tobii is on a mission to help us truly see everything out there, especially when it comes to gaming. Having broken into the rapidly expanding esports industry, Tobii’s eye-tracking technology is now an integral part of the Formula 1 gaming experience with […]
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 […]
For most journalists, one of the most frustrating things is when you miss a moment of the match or game you are covering, and you are left with a hole in your knowledge of what happened. SAP and the Women’s Tennis Association are trying to eliminate that problem with a new online portal, SAP Tennis […]
The calls to Kolkata kept coming. Steven Cadavid, the CEO of biomechanics analysis company KinaTrax, would reach out to his data-management partner, iMerit, last October to say that the ongoing project might last only one more week. Then there’d be another week extension. And another. “It’s funny, we didn’t even know, initially, that we were […]
