Major League Baseball is stepping up its live video chat capabilities through a partnership with The Video Call Center (VCC). The multi-year support relationship integrates VCC’s digital cloud and video call system into MLB Network’s operating headquarters in Secaucus, NJ to produce live, digital programs featuring guests and fans calling from video apps on their […]
After throwing the ceremonial first pitch at Game 4 of the World Series, Hailey Dawson, a 7-year-old with a birth defect that robbed her of three right-hand fingers, is expanding into hockey. The second grader will drop the ceremonial first puck at the Vegas Golden Knights vs. Philadelphia Flyers game on Sunday with a specially-designed […]
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 […]
SAN FRANCISCO — To the naked eye, nothing but green acreage surrounded San Francisco Giants outfielders Denard Span and Jarrett Parker. Through the lens of an iPad bearing baseball’s new augmented reality feature, however, the image changed: rings surrounded each player, indicating their usual defensive range. (Span’s circle, Giants fans would agree, was appropriately small.) […]
A girl born with a rare disease and on a mission to throw ceremonial first pitches with her robotic hand across Major League Baseball, will throw the first pitch at Game 4 of the World Series. Hailey Dawson, 7, was born with a rare disease called Poland Syndrome that causes birth defects in one out […]
