At its booth for the 2017 Australian Open, Yonex has paid homage to its Japanese roots with a peaceful Zen garden while attracting fans with a fast-paced “String Shooter” VR game. As unstrung rackets descend from the sky, players have 45 seconds to shoot string through the heads of as many rackets as possible. Five points are […]
Learfield Chief Revenue Officer Andy Rawlings believes the collegiate marketer hit a “home run” with STRIVR Labs, now Learfield’s Official VR Partner as of Wednesday. The new partnership will allow STRIVR, which recently raised $5 million in funding, to not only create virtual reality experiences for Learfield’s 120-plus schools and their fan bases, but also outside the playing […]
First Person Tennis is taking the VR game experience to the next level, as Mikori Games created the first tennis simulator developed for HTC Vive. Instead of staring down on the court from a bird’s eye view, First Person Tennis simulates what it would actually look like if you were the one on the court. […]
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich provided glimpses of the future of watching sports in virtual reality on Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, with press conference attendees getting to watch the Butler-Villanova men’s basketball game live in VOKE VR. Intel in November announced the acquisition of VOKE VR, which had previously presented the […]
The Saitama Seibu Lions’ Kazuhisa Makina is a submariner who has an extreme style of pitching in Japan. To say the ball is difficult to pick up for a hitter would be an understatement. But the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles are looking to virtual reality in order to solve Makina and other pitchers who they might […]
