FOX Sports is adding Ref Cam technology to its MLS All-Star Game telecast on Aug. 2, providing FS1 viewers with point of view perspectives throughout the match. The Ref Cam comes from the FOX Sports Lab initiative to test technology after the Big Ten championship football game in December featured referee-worn hats that captured point of […]
Robot fighting is so 1990s. It’s time to spice things up with a little intelligence. A first-of-its-kind matchup of artificial intelligence (AI) will kickoff via the inaugural AI World Cup online soccer tournament this November at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, the birthplace of the first Robot World Cup soccer series in 1996. […]
Step into the offices of Montreal-based 5th Wall Agency, and you can be transported through an interdimensional portal into a virtual world where you can see 360-degree views of a soccer match. The mind-blowing video that the agency released last week shows how someone can look through a window into another world to get a glimpse […]
English Premier League team Stoke City announced that its goalkeepers will now be trained using virtual reality. The club is partnering with Dutch company Beyond Sports and will also use the company’s VR technology to analyze match performances. The company offers two different options for it VR training service, with a “plug and play” providing […]
A mischievous soccer fan in Argentina took aim at a drone flown by the soccer team Gimnasia de Mendoza during a match and successfully brought down the quadcopter with a roll of paper over the weekend. Team press officer Yamila Correa tweeted Monday that the drone belonged to the team. According to Mendoza-based newspaper Diario […]
