The sports world is expanding beyond just playing or watching. Especially with social media, sports are being consumed in new and different ways, whether it be virtual reality or fantasy games. On that note, TheScore, Inc. has launched a new daily fantasy game called QuickDraft to add to its mobile sports platform. TheScore, Inc., a Toronto-based […]
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Video game fans will be pleased to hear about the latest growth and exposure opportunity of eSports. Turner Broadcasting has partnered with WME|IMG to help launch a new professional league of eSports, E-League. The launch of E-League is set for 2016, with a kickoff at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from January 6-9. E-League […]
This past weekend, Mark Cuban took on the CEO of Intel Brian Krzanich in a charity game of popular eSport “League of Legends.” The two businessmen handpicked a team of four other players, who were all professionals, and Cuban’s team eventually won the match. The event was organized by the Electronic Sports League (ESL) in […]
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 […]
