NEW YORK — The biggest expenditure and colossal headache facing almost every Olympic host city is the need to build a series of new venues. Compounding the matter are the inevitable construction delays and cost overruns during the seven years from its bid being selected to actually hosting the Games themselves. The Los Angeles 2028 Games, […]
At the beginning of this year, Intel Sports upgraded the cameras it had been using to capture virtual reality content. At the Intel Global Summit in Palm Springs, Calif., on Tuesday, Altia Systems, the company behind those new cameras, officially unveiled both its new hardware and its link up with True VR. True VR, Intel’s […]
The Overwatch League players and fans are going from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional. On Wednesday, Sansar, a free social virtual reality platform, announced it had been collaborating with the league to enable gamers to more intimately interact with fans in virtual spaces. Sansar says it has been working with multiple professional teams from the […]
Today, SOLOS augmented-reality smart glasses went on sale to consumers. The glasses will let cyclists and runners get real-time metrics on their performance as they train through a four-millimeter screen mounted just within an athlete’s field of vision. Though the glasses were originally designed strictly for cyclists, SOLOS (a unit of the Kopin Corporation) decided […]
This week, Nike launched a partnership with Facebook that will allow shoppers to take an augmented reality look at pairs of limited-edition sneakers before they decide to buy. Announced at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, the feature uses Facebook’s Messenger app, which is aiming to use augmented reality to help brands reach out to customers. Shoppers […]
