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BT Sport Launches Infinity Lab Competition For Startups

British telecommunications giant BT has launched a competition to find startups that can help to improve sports broadcasts on its BT Sport subscription TV channels. This is the second time this competition will be run for BT Sport and will be handled by BT’s Infinity Lab. The application to enter is now open and the […]

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Dribblers FC App Uses Comic Adventure To Teach Kids Soccer

On the day that the U.S. men’s soccer team was eliminated from qualification for next year’s World Cup, inciting an array of condemnations about how the sport is taught at a youth level, a new Kickstarter campaign launched that aims to use technology to encourage more children to play soccer and have fun while learning […]

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Esports Execs Discuss Barriers, Advantages To Olympic Inclusion

Earlier this summer, news broke that Paris was open to considering esports’ inclusion at the 2024 Olympics. A decision won’t be made until 2020, leaving time to address things that need to happen before it’s seriously considered as an addition. At last month’s Soccerex Global Convention, a group closely tied to the esports community discussed the […]

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Inter Milan Enables New Media Approach With Inter Media House

FC Internazionale Milano has announced the Inter Media House project — a new way for fans to have exclusive access to the Inter club. Content from the Inter Media House will provide fans with insights into the Inter club. These insights will be heightened with the use of virtual and augmented reality, which will allow fans […]

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English Soccer Clubs Begin Rollout Of Perimeter Ad Technology

A number of top tier English soccer clubs have begun rolling out new technology which has the ability to virtually alter in-stadium advertising when watched on TV. Virtual replacement perimeter technology, as it is called, has been installed at a number of English Premier League (EPL) and English Football League (EFL) teams’ stadiums this season, […]

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