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UFC Pay-Per-View Events Come To Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Video is bringing UFC pay-per-view events to viewers in the U.S. beginning Saturday with UFC 222: Cris Cyborg vs. Yana Kunitskaya. The pay-per-view-events are each available on Prime Video with no Prime membership required. Purchases can be made up to four hours before the start of the live programming. UFC 222 costs $64.99 to […]

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DARI Motion Provides Motion Capture Tech Without Markers, Force Plates

ACL injuries have long been a plague of Australian Rules Football, likely owing to the cuts, pivots and tackles inherent in the sport. Earlier this decade, however, the Carlton Blues club in Melbourne had designated physiotherapist Sam Rosengarten as its injury prevention coordinator worked with post-doctoral fellow Hossein Mokhtarzadeh on a new program informed by […]

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Japan’s NTT Aims For 3D Hologram Live Sports Broadcasts In 2020

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 […]

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FlipTix Creates Tertiary Market To Flip Tickets Mid-Event

During the busy summer season at campgrounds, when park plots tend to sell out, Seth Siegel noticed how often campers and RVs might reserve a week but vacate halfway through, leaving unused terrain that the park couldn’t return to their inventory to meet the unmet demand. Along with his older brother, Jaime, he began brainstorming […]

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