New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski’s reputation as a scatterbrained goofball who enjoys having a drink precedes him, but perhaps it’s a bit misstated. He’s a big part of enhancing Boston’s youth community, and it’s shown — he has previously donated $70,000 to Boston public schools in order to promote girls sports, $330,000 to […]
Anyone who’s ever played fantasy sports has endured those agonizing minutes hoping a certain wide receiver might fall a few spots to his or her draft pick, but a startup company is empowering fantasy players to be proactive in filling out one’s roster. AR Sports uses a randomized algorithm to disperse virtual NFL players within […]
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho pranked football fans at a virtual reality (VR) press conference experience held in the U.K. last week. Top Eleven, an online soccer management simulation video game with over 160 million players worldwide, invited a number of its users to test what it called a VR “prototype” whereby they pretended to […]
Major League Baseball and Google’s Daydream are debuting on Thursday an original virtual reality series entitled “On the Verge,” providing an up-close look at some of baseball’s best young talent. The first episodes — available in the MLB.com At Bat VR Daydream app for Daydream View and cardboard headsets and also in 2D on MLB’s YouTube […]
Georgia Tech men’s basketball coach Josh Pastner is implementing virtual reality into his recruiting process. Pastner has brought virtual reality goggles to his recruiting visits, which are able to show potential commits what it’s really like to live, work and play at Georgia Tech and in Atlanta. The goggles add distinctive flair to the visits, […]
