A patent recently filed by Apple seeks to use advanced sensors on a newly-designed Apple Watch band to evaluate sports performance when using third-party equipment, such as golf clubs, baseball bats, footballs or barbells. The company is looking to build a new smart band with a number of sensors that would analyze how a wrist […]
A new scouting platform built by a teenager in Delhi and adopted by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) last month seeks to level the playing field in India by unearthing talent in rural regions that might have otherwise been overlooked. Kush Pandey, a 17-year-old soccer player, came up with the idea for ScoutMe […]
Virtex Arena, an augmented reality app designed to fill the downtime during live sporting events, uses a 3D model of the stadium to overlay games onto the field directly in front of a viewer’s seat. The football version of the app debuted earlier this year at the Super Bowl, but its makers have their eyes on […]
A record amount of people tuned into March Madness via live streams this year amid an increase in availability and an improvement in the overall quality of streams, according to Conviva, a digital media analytics company that measured the tournament for Turner Sports. In the first two days of the tournament across all of the […]
At the Masters Tournament this weekend, IBM will use its artificial intelligence Watson to sift through hundreds of hours of play and produce customized video highlights for fans. IBM this week introduced an automated, personalized highlight reel service called “My Moments” that will be available to fans for free through Masters.com and the tournament’s iPhone […]
