By SVG Staff | Monday, May 10, 2021 - 11:28
Genius Sports has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Second Spectrum, a provider of data tracking and visualisation solutions. “Genius is committed to capturing and distributing the fastest, most accurate, and secure official sports data. This acquisition supports our long-term strategic vision of utilising AI tracking, enhanced data insights and transformative technology to revolutionise […]
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By Heather McLean, Editor | Monday, November 23, 2020 - 12:41
BT Sport and mobile operator EE recently announced Match Day Experience, a set of new features for the BT Sport app. Match Day Experience brings augmented reality (AR) elements and 360-degree video to live and non-live coverage of Premier League matches for EE 5G subscribers using the new iPhone 12. SVG Europe caught up with […]
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By Heather McLean, Editor | Monday, September 14, 2020 - 16:00
The Premier League’s highest level of official player and team level eventing data has been synchronised with tracking data to provide new metrics and insights to football fans. As the official tracking provider of the Premier League, Second Spectrum delivers its state-of-the-art player and ball tracking data for every Premier League match, using advanced computer […]
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By Heather McLean, Editor | Monday, February 17, 2020 - 14:39
Second Spectrum, the official optical tracking and analytics provider of sports leagues such as the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the English Premier League, has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) provider. Second Spectrum has also selected AWS media services to help deliver new kinds of […]
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