For episode 11 of the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein, Austin James Smith of VAR Football joins Bram to discuss training football players with virtual and augmented reality. Plus, with the NBA playoffs in full swing, Kevin Durant rejects social media – except for YouTube, esports gamers go to college, and a fitness app that […]
Esports will be a medal sport in the 2022 Asian Games. Alisports, the sports arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba, has partnered with the Olympic Council of Asia to bring esports to the Asian Games when it comes to Hangzhou, China in 2022. Could it be that in the future, esports will be an Olympic sport? […]
Since the early 2000s, the NFL and EA Sports have invested in competitions around the Madden franchise on a grassroots, local and regional level. The partnership between the two organizations has spanned 28 years and is starting to take a more formalized shape around more-publicized events, like this past weekend’s Madden 17 Club Series Championship. […]
Esports organization Team Dignitas announced Wednesday it would be expanding its live streaming on digital, partnering with Facebook to expand its global footprint online as it broadcasts players’ practice sessions and other esports events. The team will continue to live stream via traditional esports company Twitch, according to the announcement. “Our goal here is to turn […]
Global esports company ESL is soon launching its 24/7 esportsTV channel on PlayStation Vue later this month, making it available in the U.S. for the first time. The dedicated channel will be the first linear channel specifically for esports in the United States. Last May, ESL launched esportsTV in Europe to grow its global audience […]
