College football coaches and their respective staffs are still in the early adoption phase of virtual reality, a new training and preparation tool for players and teams that has gained traction over the past year. Around a dozen schools, including Stanford, Utah, Arkansas and Kansas State, are currently working with STRIVR Labs. Skeptics still remain: […]
NTT DATA Corporation and Rakuten Baseball announced Wednesday they will launch a virtual reality baseball coaching system in Japan that the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles are scheduled to begin using next season. Could the VR system being used in Nippon Professional Baseball soon come to Major League Baseball? Rakuten, the team that MLB pitchers Hisashi Iwakuma […]
ESPN has decided to enter one of the next frontiers in the sports industry: drone racing. The “The Worldwide Leader” which has been at the forefront of other non-traditional programming like eSports announced a multi-year agreement with the Drone Racing League on Wednesday. ESPN will have distribution rights in North, South and Central America in addition […]
Earlier this month, FIFA kicked the ball forward with its inaugural use of video replay technology, specifically called “video assistant referees” (VAR). Yet, the trial run was met with criticism by some. On Sept. 1, Italy and France squared off in Bari for FIFA’s first ever “semi-live” test run. FIFA President Gianni Infantino was “very satisfied” with how […]
Denver, CO. — Day 1 of the 2016 SFIA Industry Leaders Summit featuring many of the top executive minds of the sports and fitness technology worlds illustrated how rapidly technological shifts are taking place in the sporting industry. The day began with a sports and fitness startup challenge that was eventually won by Hookit, who beat […]
