NEW YORK — For the golf course of the future to be smart, it’s going to enable golfers to instantaneously use video replay to break down their swings. That’s what sports technology company PlaySight sees, and investor Greg Norman can envision it, too. “You can do it on your phone nowadays, so making it even […]
After outfitting its technology for a professional soccer team in Germany, PlaySight is expanding its suite of autonomous scouting and coaching tools across the soccer industry. At the Soccerex Global Convention last month, PlaySight co-founder and CEO Chen Shachar pitched the company’s newest cloud-based video technology, SmartField, to European football clubs as a way to […]
Much is expected of high school coaches. They’re pressed with the delicate balance of developing the player while keeping a keen eye on developing each student as a person. Oftentimes, and rightfully so, precedent falls on the latter. Still, with the high-level of competitiveness in high school sports, schools are looking for an edge. That’s why PlaySight, […]
Can Greg Norman help change the golf course as we know it? He’s putting investment money behind that idea. Norman and Verizon Ventures — Verizon’s corporate VC unit — announced Friday that they had made a strategic investment in PlaySight to assist in the company’s global SmartCourt expansion into golf and other sports. The $11 […]
The Virginia Tech and USC men’s tennis teams last week hosted the first two PlaySight PlayFair Challenge dual matches featuring SmartCourt technology, a cloud-based sports video and analytics platform. One of the major advantages afforded by SmartCourt technology is the PlayFair Challenge System. The technology enables every player using a PlaySight SmartCourt to challenge and review close line calls, […]
