The Melbourne Stars, an Australian cricket team, have announced the launch of a new augmented reality experience. Fans who download the Stars AR app will unlock a multitude of in-match AR offerings. These include the National Storage boom boom stick game, scannable AR logo markers and much more. Don’t forget to download the Stars AR […]
Next time you head out to the links, you may want to bring a new golf ball. Coach Labs has announced the availability of the GEN i1 smart golf ball, a Bluetooth-enabled device that tracks a number of performance metrics and sends them to a smartphone app. The ball tracks its rotation, skid and distance among other […]
MUNICH — A team called “Beat Adidas” became the first to win the grand prize at FC Bayern Munich’s inaugural HackDays event which ran from Jan 19-22. The hackathon event was divided up into seven predetermined challenges, with this team taking part in the Adidas stream. In order to win the grand prize, it first needed […]
The video board at live sporting events provides in-depth replays, players stats and – during the downtime of events – random games and challenges to keep fans engaged. American sports fans know those games all too well. A baseball gets put under a hat, and they are all shuffled around. Which hat is the ball […]
When St. Bonaventure High standout softball player Kalene Egedi tried to walk on to the powerhouse Texas A&M team in 2011, the coach made what should have been a rather perfunctory request to see her high school stats and videos. With the help of her father, Pete, they scoured the Internet for news clippings, box […]
