VR Sports
NBA All-Star and Weekly Regular Season Coverage Comes Live to VR via TNT and Intel
TNT and Intel have teamed up to bring NBA All-Star coverage to VR on Gear VR and Daydream.
Based on Intel's True VR technology, TNT is bringing live and on-demand VR coverage of NBA All-Star events to Gear VR and...
‘Sparc’ Comes to Vive & Rift with Cross-play Support for PSVR
Despite the news that CCP Games is shelving VR for the time being, the company promises that their last title Sparc will not only go on, but CCP is carrying through with plans to launch the game on both the Oculus...
NextVR to Broadcast NFL Game Highlights in VR Following 5 Games this Season
Are you ready for some VR football highlights? NextVR, a familiar name in VR sports broadcasting—with earlier VR livestreaming initiatives with the NBA, NHL, and more—and the NFL return for a second season of post-game immersive highlight content in...
NFL Refs Using STRIVR’s VR Training Platform to Prepare for New Season
The NFL continues to maintain its strong relationship with VR technology, now employing the STRIVIR platform to train some officials. According to a report by SportTechie, the virtual reality training company has been working with the NFL’s Officiating Development...
‘Racket Fury’ Bringing Amped-up VR Ping Pong to Early Access This Week
Table tennis is becoming an increasingly crowded area in the world of VR sport, and Racket Fury aims to differentiate itself with a blend of futuristic visuals, unique robot AI personalities, and detailed physics. The game has been in...
NBA Finals Prove That VR Sports Broadcasting is Maturing, But There’s Still Missing Pieces
Sports in VR is squarely in the realm of low-hanging VR that you often hear rattled off on five fingers when broaching the topic of industries VR will revolutionize. And while it's easy to imagine, actual execution is a...
Intel & Major League Baseball Partnership Will Bring Free Weekly Games Streamed in VR
Live VR broadcasts from the world's biggest sporting leagues are steadily becoming easier to find. A major new three year partnership between Intel and MLB, America's leading baseball league, will bring weekly live baseball games streamed in VR for free to...
‘NCAA March Madness Live VR’ Let’s You Watch the Courtside Action for $2
The dream of watching live sports courtside from the comfort of your home through VR is steadily becoming a reality. Oculus and Intel have teamed up with Turner Sports and CBS to stream six March Madness games live in...
‘Knockout League’ Early Access Review
Knockout League (2017) is a single-player, arcade-style boxing game that promises to get your heart pumping as you duck, block, and punch your way to victory. Harking back to NES classic Punch-Out!! (1987), you learn pretty quickly that a storm of punches—the moral equivalent...
Trinity VR’s ‘DiamondFX’ Batting Simulator is Made for the Major Leagues
We speak to Trinity VR about their Vive Tracker powered Diamond FX project which aims to provide realistic virtual reality simulations for major league baseball teams, all powered by years of real pitching statistics.
One of the more off-beat uses...
STRIVR Introduces VR Training On and Off the Field
With industries outside of entertainment expected to account for the majority of virtual reality industry revenues, the question of utility seems ever-pressing. How can virtual reality transcend novelty into utility and become truly useful?
It’s a question that STRIVR Labs...
Chess World Championships to Broadcast Live in Pay-per-view 360 Video
One of the world's oldest competitive games is to get the immersive video treatment as this November's World Championship is streamed live in 360 video.
Yes, you read that right. The 2016 Chess World Championships are to set to be...
A Professional Gamer’s View on VR eSports
Stephanie Harvey (aka "missharvey") is a professional eSports gamer playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with the Counter Logic Gaming Red team. I had a chance to catch up with her at PAX West to talk about the future of eSports...
Using VR Revolutionize Sports Training with STRIVR Labs
When Derek Belch was a kicker on Stanford's football team in 2007, he took a class with the Virtual Human Interaction Lab's Jeremy Bailenson where he was exposed to virtual reality technologies for the first time. Belch asked Bailenson...
Watch Real Madrid vs. Bayern Munich Tonight in VR
Bundesliga champions FC Bayern Munich are up against La Liga's Real Madrid tonight for the 2016 International Champions Cup, and providing you have a Gear VR, you can watch it livestreaming in virtual reality starting August 3rd at 7:30 PM...



















