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Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports

TechCrunch

Sports have been among some of the most popular and lucrative media plays in the world, luring broadcasters, advertisers and consumers to fork out huge sums to secure the chance to watch (and sponsor) their favorite teams and athletes. Even with the slowdown in a lot of sporting activity this year due to COVID — in the U.K.

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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

TechCrunch

Does the average person want to shop for apparel in virtual reality (VR)? Enter Emperia , an “immersive” retail startup that — to its credit — has already created virtual stores for brands including Bloomingdales, Dior, Ralph Lauren and Lacoste. A virtual store created with Emperia’s platform.

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How Big Data Has Transformed Sports

BrainStation Technology

In a relatively short period of time, big data has become a big business in professional sports. The market for sports analytics is expected to reach almost $4 billion by 2022, and teams around the world are racing to find a competitive advantage. Taken together, you can see that data has had a profound impact on the sport.

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Higher-ed CIOs embrace academia’s AI challenges

CIO

CIOs on university campuses across the country have an obligation, as technology leaders, to provide the tools and expertise that staff, administration, and professors require to help fulfill the potential of students, and the university itself. If you don’t know these tools, you’re at a disadvantage in the job market.”

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6 Frontiers for Data Virtualization in 2021

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

You use data virtualization to create data views, configure security, and share data. One: Streaming Data Virtualization. But first-generation data virtualization tools are designed for data at rest. They provide tools to clean, aggregate and augment events. Two: Virtualized Data Science Model Output.

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Live-streaming platform BoxCast raises $20M

TechCrunch

And it’s no surprise that 2020 has been a “watershed moment” for the company, as Daily put it, with the company now live streaming millions of events per year — everything from sports to religious services to virtual safaris offered by Sri Lanka’s tourism board. BoxCast dashboard.

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Building an Experience-driven Contact Center

CIO

Packed sports arenas. Customers should be floored by how easy it is to get things done with self-service tools such as a virtual agent. All-inclusive vacations. Personalized tours. These are the kinds of experiences that engage us, excite us, and leave us feeling satisfied.