Recent Posts tagged with VAR
By Jo Ruddock | Tuesday, April 19, 2022 - 14:37
Sportec Solutions subsidiary Vieww has been selected as the VAR technology provider for Liga 3, the third tier of Portuguese men’s professional football. Vieww was chosen by agency and broadcast production group Mediapro in its role as service provider of the Portuguese Football Federation. This is the first time that an approved VAR service has […]
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By Heather McLean, Editor | Monday, March 21, 2022 - 11:03
Sportec Solutions, the sports technology joint venture between Deltatre and the Deutsche Football League (DFL), has purchased a majority shareholding in Vieww, a provider of goal-line technology (GLT) and video assistant referee (VAR) solutions. Sportec Solutions will use Vieww technology in a deal that will run for an initial five years, beginning next season (2022-23). […]
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By Jo Ruddock | Wednesday, March 16, 2022 - 13:55
After several months of tests and referee training, the Kazakhstan Football Federation (KFF) has implemented slomo.tv’s video assistant referee technology in regular season games of the Olimpbet Super Cup and the Kazakhstan Championship. To equip the stadiums of Kazakhstan Professional Football League clubs, slomo.tv has supplied FIFA-certified VAR systems supporting up to eight cameras. The […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Tuesday, March 15, 2022 - 16:29
Alex Redfern, chief technology officer at EVS, tells SVG Europe’s Jo Ruddock about recent and upcoming projects in the football arena and discusses the Xeebra multi-camera review system, which recently received VAR and VOL certification from FIFA. Football Summit 2022 took place on Thursday 10 March at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.
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By SVG Contributor | Monday, January 24, 2022 - 08:40
By Igor Vitiorets, CTO, Slomo.tv. Video assistant referee (VAR) technology or video assisted review (the name introduced by FINA and, in our opinion, an excellent description of the video-refereeing process in any sport,) is rapidly being implemented in all sports, including those with limited budgets. Therefore, the development of affordable VAR systems is an important […]
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By SVG Contributor | Monday, January 17, 2022 - 08:39
By Ophir Zardok, sports solutions and business strategy director, LiveU Freedom. That’s the key word when it comes to IP bonding. It provides the freedom to choose how to cover an event and opens up the choice of what events customers want to cover, whatever their scale, from niche sports to Tier 1. It provides […]
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By Amber Fisher | Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - 17:33
FIFA has granted EVS’ Xeebra multi-camera review system the internationally recognised FIFA virtual offside lines (VOL) and the video assistant referee (VAR) certification as part of FIFA’s ongoing effort to improve the decision-making process of the game. The certifications follow the Xeebra system undergoing a series of tests carried out by independent, FIFA-accredited test institutes […]
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By Heather McLean, Editor | Wednesday, October 6, 2021 - 11:52
Italian Football league Serie A has teamed with Hawk-Eye Innovations, Sony’s wholly-owned subsidiary for officiating and tracking technologies, on a new collaboration that will result in the launch of a state-of-the-art video assistant referee (VAR) Replay Centre in Lissone, Italy. The new joint venture sees Hawk-Eye providing multiple services including goal-line technology (GLT), VAR, VAR […]
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By Heather McLean, Editor | Tuesday, August 17, 2021 - 12:18
At the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Slomo.tv’s videoReferee-SR system was used to provide video assistance to referees during the water polo competitions. To achieve correct and error-free refereeing for Tokyo 2020, The International Swimming Federation (FINA) chose Slomo’s video assistant referee (VAR) technology. FINA decided to adopt this technology for water polo in 2018. Since […]
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By Jo Ruddock | Monday, July 5, 2021 - 14:53
Tata Communications is enhancing the sports experience of fans with its Virtual Video Assisted Referee (V-VAR). Powered by Tata’s Media Cloud, V-VAR enables an unlimited number of umpires, referees and judges to connect remotely from anywhere across the globe to assess and declare the winner when contestants are racing to the finishing line, offering a […]
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