Rob Schaefer

Cosm and Centennial Yards Company will today announce a long-term lease to bring a Cosm shared reality venue to downtown Atlanta, the immersive technology company’s third such facility in the US. Spanning three levels and 70,000 square feet, the venue is the first addition to a planned...

NBC Sports coordinating producer Joel Felicio was first introduced to Promotheus’ augmented reality technology, which has been a pillar of the network’s Tour de France coverage since 2019, while on assignment covering the three-week race several years ago. “There’s however many [television] networks in the compound, and...

Interactive broadcast technology provider Dizplai is powering a new digital game called Golf Matchups that is now live across The Open’s web and app platforms. Golf fans that join One Club, The R&A’s free membership program, can compete for placement on global leaderboards and prizes by making...

As Major League Rugby prepares for its playoffs -- and, it hopes, its largest television audiences of the 2024 season -- the league is rolling out a suite of data-driven broadcast graphics for upcoming telecasts across Fox channels. The new augmented reality animations will...

Two-and-a-half years after the initial pitch, and culminating from 18 months of development, the PPA Tour and FarSight Studios go live today with a pickleball video game for Xbox, PlayStation (PS4 and PS5) and Steam. The game, titled PPA Pickleball Tour 2025, is priced at...

The ATP Tour is retiring the Infosys Hall of Fame Open’s 250-level tournament after its 2024 edition -- which is taking place this week in Newport, R.I. -- but the International Tennis HOF will still host a professional tennis event on its grounds in 2025. The ITHF announced...

After approving in-helmet radio devices for football competitions this spring, the NCAA’s experimentation with various methods of coach-to-player communication is expanding at the Division III level. The Liberty League recently had a proposal of experimental use for in-game play calling technology provided by ...

The ATP Tour -- through its joint venture with ATP Media, Tennis Data Innovations -- has partnered with Sportradar to launch an AI-powered online tracking system that will monitor and flag abuse levied at its players on social media. The service, which the Tour is calling Safe Sport, will...

Cleveland-based WTA 250 tournament Tennis in the Land has reached an agreement with Rocket Mortgage that will make the mortgage lending giant the event’s presenting sponsor for the next two years.  The deal, for which financial terms were not disclosed, was negotiated by Rock Entertainment Group...

The Famous Group’s Vixi Suite is getting an overhaul. The popular mixed-reality technology vendor unveiled several new features and upgrades to its kit of jumbotron-focused fan engagement tools, which are used in more than 175 venues worldwide, at the annual Information Display and Entertainment Association (IDEA) conference...