Every four years, when the Winter Olympics arrive, undoubtedly there are many people who don’t know exactly what every sport is. This year, for PyeongChang 2018, Al Jazeera sought to change that. Using augmented reality, the Qatar-based network showed its viewers how curling, biathlon, skiing and bobsled, among others, actually work, according to a report […]
On this episode of the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein, executives Jack Jackson and Brian Gilmore from NBC Sports Group chat with Bram about the tech and innovation we saw deployed at the PyeongChang Olympics and what we might expect in the future. That and much more on the SportTechie Podcast. You can subscribe to […]
Ted Ligety has collected two gold medals in his Olympic career and most recently was a participant in PyeongChang. During his career, he also co-founded a business to help him and other athletes win more. That business? Shred Optics, which creates helmets, sunglasses and other gear designed to help professional and recreational winter athletes. Ligety’s […]
Japanese telecommunications company NTT announced last week that it is making progress in delivering technology that can bring 3D broadcasts of live sports events to fans off-site. The system, called Kirari! For Arena, uses multiple cameras to track 3D positional information of athletes to reproduce their natural movements in a hologram form, enabling the company […]
Soohorang, the white tiger mascot that symbolized the past two weeks of Olympic competition in Pyeongchang, and was given as a toy to all the medal-winning athletes, appeared in light over the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium. How? He was configured by 300 LED-emitting drones, according to Intel. The drones formed into the tiger, hovering several hundred […]
