This week’s guest on the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein is Scott O’Neil, CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports and Entertainment. Scott leads the Philadelphia 76ers, the New Jersey Devils, the Prudential Center, Team Dignitas, and the Sixers Innovation Lab. Hear him discuss entrepreneurship, innovation, and the world’s largest and highest-definition indoor scoreboard. That and more on the […]
Leon Draisaitl, center for the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers, has announced a partnership with wearable technology company Vexatec. The German hockey player will wear Vexatec’s “Agility-shirt” product filled with high-tech tiny textile sensors. The product is fitted with an inbuilt central computing unit, called the 3D-A-Cluster, which the company says can capture, store, and transmit performance […]
NEW YORK — The San Jose Sharks are the first NHL team to have its own Oculus Gear VR application. Thanks to the immersive media platform Zeality, the team can use the app to deliver virtual reality, 360-degree videos and photos to fans everywhere and take them right up against the glass at the Shark […]
NEW YORK — While analytics have already permeated the basketball discourse enough that anyone can identify that the most efficient shots are close-range 2-pointers and 3-pointers, those broad parameters lack pertinent details in evaluating the quality of a shot: the defender’s proximity and wingspan, his matchup history with the shooter and even his passing options. […]
The largest and highest definition center-hung scoreboard in the world will be unveiled at the New Jersey Devils’ Oct. 7 home opener at Prudential Center in Newark. The 88,401-pound videoboard (equivalent to 2,562.35 Stanley Cups), was built by a company called Trans-Lux to support the fan experience at Prudential Center. It has more than 29.6 […]
