This section of SportTechie, “Sports Tech Wire”, contains original press releases issued by various companies and industry organizations. The releases are reviewed by the SportTechie editorial staff to ensure relevancy to the sports technology industry. For information and access, send your name and email address to info@SportTechie.com Moovit to be included in mobility section of UEFA EURO 2016 Fan […]
It was reported earlier this month that BT Sport, in response to their struggling ratings, would be broadcasting the UEFA Champions League and Europa League finals via YouTube. The decision to team up with the online video platform was so they could make the games as accessible as possible and hopefully bring in more than […]
The time has come for the Union of European Football Associations to join numerous others in the use of virtual reality (VR) in sports during Euro 2016 this upcoming June. To do this they have up with the Finland-based company Nokia with its new OZO Professional VR Camera PC-01 (but we’ll call it OZO for […]
With Manchester City inching towards a possible UEFA Champions League Final, they could be the first English team in four years to feature in the final. Yet the broadcasting corporation that holds the rights to the final in the United Kingdom has come under heavy criticism, as they are pulling a viewership that is about […]
The use of goal-line technology in soccer has long been a contested subject. Perhaps the majority of fans have welcomed its growing application to create a fairer, less erroneous game. However, it has also been fiercely opposed. Similarly to how Roger Federer has been so famously hostile to Hawk-Eye’s introduction to tennis, ex- Manchester United […]
