FIFA’s adoption of Video Assistant Referees at the 2018 World Cup has been conspicuous. Play halts, the video board signals a review, and the losing side inevitably gripes about the...
The robotic motion control discipline regularly used in cinema to create layered special effects is being adapted for innovative player tracking and broadcasting in sports. If there is a movie scene of, say, Scarlett Johansson running away from a series of explosions, the director may only need one take of her running, then stage additional […]
Major League Baseball’s revolutionary Statcast technology has earned a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for its collection and broadcast of advanced tracking statistics. The Emmy will be jointly presented to all three members of the Statcast triumvirate: TrackMan, which provides its Doppler radars; ChyronHego, which offers both an optical-tracking system (called TRACAB) and broadcast visualization tools; […]
A new, free app, available to Dutch soccer fans, will enable them to see match highlights in virtual reality. The app will recreate all the action into a VR representation for fans to enjoy. The app, created by virtual reality company Beyond Sports and television service FOX Sports Eredivisie, lets fans watch these VR recreations through […]
This section of SportTechie, “SportTechie Wire”, contains original press releases issued by various companies and industry organizations. The releases are reviewed by the SportTechie editorial staff to ensure relevancy to the sports technology industry. For information and access, send your name and email address to info@SportTechie.com ChyronHego today announced that the Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL), one of the world’s […]
