Sports and Stadiums – Page 14

Optoma Projectors Enhance Climbing Wall Experience

by Bob Raikes

Optoma sent us an intriguing case study of the use of projection to enhance the experience of climbing walls. The system combines the projector with a body tracking system (based on an XBox Kinect) …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Optoma| Projectors| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 24 - Issue 19

BT To Show Champions League Final in VR

by Bob Raikes

BT has said that it will broadcast the UEFA Champions League final in a number of 360°streams on YouTube and the new BT Sport Virtual Reality App, allowing viewers to choose between a 360°produced …

Champion’s League Final Will Be Shown in 4K

by Yvette Raikes

Following on previous news about its support for UHD (Vodafone Spain to Introduce UHD), Vodafone Spain will add the Champions League Final to its UHD programming. The match between Real Madrid and Juventus will …

Klitschko/Joshua Video Available on Sky VR App

by Bob Raikes

Sky in the UK has created a 12 minute VR film of the world heavyweight boxing match between Vitali Klitschko and Anthony Joshua. The film was captured with eight special VR cameras by Sky’s …

NAB Strong on VR & 360º video

by Bob Raikes

I had planned to write up the story about Intel and Samsung that we cover on the Front Page, but as I had to do an extra Display Daily, I covered it in a …

GoVision and digiLED Toura6 Used for Basketball Event

by Alan Spencer

GoVision and digiLED, presented all the action at the 2017 NCAA Final Four held at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona which finished at the beginning of this month. The LED screens erected …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Sports and Stadiums| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 16

PCCW Global Delivers a 360° VR Rugby Experience with Harmonic

by Alan Spencer

Harmonic has announced that its Electra VS video system was used by PCCW Global to deliver immersive 360° VR experiences live during the 2017 Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament earlier this month. …

Tags:360 Degree Video| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Sky to Show Test Match Cricket in 4K UHD

by Alan Spencer

Sky Q customers in the UK and Ireland, that have Sky Sports and Sky’s Q box, will be able to watch England’s four cricket test (international) matches in Ultra HD this summer. The test …

Disney Helps Enable Virtual Baseball

by Arthur Berman

One reality of virtual reality is that wearing a HMD renders the user practically blind to the surrounding real world. A second reality is that it is very difficult to convey to the wearer …

Tags:Disney| Sports and Stadiums| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Review of VR Excercising

by Bob Raikes

A journalist for Forbes.com has spent a month using VR while excercising on a fixed bike. Her conclusion? She didn’t like the sweat from the HTC Vive she used and had to get over …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Laval Virtual 2017 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

3DRudder’s Motion controller. Image:Meko 3D Rudder has developed a foot pad that can be used to control movement in VR games. Tipping the board moves in the appropriate direction and the board can also …

DirecTV Has 25 2017 Baseball Games Coming in UHD

by Bob Raikes

DirecTV will show 25 Major League Baseball in UltraHD this year, with five games in April. DirecTV will also be broadcasting a number of NBA matches in 2017 –starting with Oklahoma City at Orlando …