Social media is a powerful force. It can be utilized as a deadly weapon, mighty enough to take the world’s most famous athletes from eminence and adulation and banish them to a life of scorn and irrelevance with just the click of a button. All it took was one photo of Olympic hero, Michael Phelps, […]
Saracens F.C., the popular English rugby club and 2015 Aviva Premiership winners, have partnered with Eleven Sports Media to improve their in-stadium experience. Through this partnership, the club will install 17 screens in their stadium, Allianz Park, that will employ Eleven’s streaming services. The partnership arose from the Saracens Business Club, an event series that […]
The buzz around virtual reality has existed for a while, and there are certainly a bevy of differing opinions surrounding the technology. Some insist that VR is too ambitious and futuristic almost to the point of self-parody, while others swear that virtual reality has uncovered the next frontier of entertainment. Earlier this week, NextVR looked […]
You might know Houston-based SnapStream, Inc. from television programs like Comedy Central’s The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, of late. The company is responsible for the wide variety of TV clips the two shows aired, and the range of footage their staff was able to process. Now, SnapStream has entered the realm of sports, […]
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) recently developed a system to automatically convert 2-D video of actual soccer games to 3-D video—and they did it all by using FIFA 13. This 3-D video is no joke—it can be played over any 3-D device, including all 3-D televisions, devices like the Oculus […]
