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Sports venues advance goals, enhance fan experience with data analytics

CIO

Sports fans today have more ways than ever to watch their favorite teams beyond the traditional, live stadium experience, including television, streaming services, even highlights on social media. In response, sports teams and venue operators are working hard to improve and differentiate the in-stadium experience.

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Metaverse: The time for CIOs to experiment is now

CIO

For the past forty years CIOs have labored to retrofit, rearchitect, and ultimately replace underfunded and underappreciated legacy infrastructures in hopes of delivering the full benefits associated with periodically occurring waves of transformative emerging technologies. The metaverse has the potential to change that. Emerging Technology

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VUZ raises $20 million to scale its immersive social app

TechCrunch

The platform offers over 20,000 hours of content covering entertainment, creators, sports, and XR, VR, and AR experiences virtually anywhere in the world. The immersive media platform said it will leverage the telecom operators’ infrastructure to expand into countries in the Middle East and Africa.

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Triumph raises $14M for an SDK to add real-money tournaments into games

TechCrunch

The surge of interest in e-sports, online fantasy leagues and more extensive online financial infrastructure have made the concept of real-money gaming more popular among consumers and games developers. Currently its focus is mobile games but the bigger aim is to expand to platforms like VR and more.

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From crypto trading and home workouts to EV batteries and microLED displays, CES’ Taiwan startups cover a wide range of tech

TechCrunch

It gives warnings if anything is amiss, and is meant to make smart cities safer without affecting existing infrastructure. Ganzin is an AI-based eye tracking solution for integration into AR/VR devices and smart glasses. It can train AI models in parallel or distributed models on multiple GPUs. Tech for Good.

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Sunny side up

Pandora's Brain

Good immersive VR equipment is now found in most homes, and it is increasingly rare to see an adolescent in public outside school hours. All major movies made by Netflix, Hollywood and Bollywood are now produced in VR, along with all major video games. To general surprise, levels of literacy – and indeed book sales – have not fallen.

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Billy Beane Shows How AI Can Give You a Competitive Edge

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AI-powered systems can enhance the fan experience by providing real-time data, interactive virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) experiences, and personalized content based on fan preferences. The areas in which AI is being applied within baseball include: Player evaluation. Fan engagement. Broadcasting.

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