MLS & NBA Set The Pace As ‘Traditional’ Sports Realise eSports Potential

Check out the latest news, interviews and thought leadership that impact fan experience, performance data and tech innovation across the entire sports industry.       MLS & NBA Set The Pace As ‘Traditional’ Sports Realise eSports Potential   For the gaming communities, eSports are not a new phenomenon, not by any stretch. They have immense global audiences, incredible viewership and engagement metrics with huge prize money to boot. Meanwhile the sports industry is going through a period of unprecedented change. Live viewership has been declining dramatically and typically still runs off a distribution model with many of the traditionally dominant companies slow to implement technology innovation. The industry is ripe for disruption with eSports set to be ‘Disruptor-in-Chief,’ and herein lies a marriage of necessity and reciprocal value. - more people watched last year’s League of Legends world finals than the NBA Finals read more >> More news from Sports Innovation Network  Major League Soccer Join eSports Giants Activision Blizzard, ESL Gaming & KSV At Sports Performance & Fan Engagement Summit As the news breaks that the MLS has entered into partnership with EA Sports to create the eMLS, a new competitive EA Sports FIFA 18 league we are delighted to welcome Christopher Schlosser, MLS SVP Digital to the Sports Performance and Fan Engagement Summit in San Francisco in two weeks time (Jan 30-31). The eMLS will feature the best FIFA 18 players from the US and Canada vying for a chance to become world champions. They are following the recent announcement of the NBA 2K League and with the Mclaren ‘World’s Fastest Gamer’ the gap between traditional and ‘e’ Sports is becoming increasingly narrow. read more >> Electrifying! The Giants & US Olympic Ski Team Use New Neuroscience Tech To Boost Performance. Neuro-stimulator headphones revolutionize brain learning and maximise performance...   From MLB players to Olympians, a new piece of sports performance technology is spreading like wildfire: Halo Sport. Don’t be fooled by its appearance — this pair of headphones does a lot more than play music... Halo Sport is actually a neuro-stimulator that accelerates improvements in skill, strength, and endurance when paired with training. It uses electricity to stimulate the part of the brain that controls movement, strengthening neural pathways from the brain to the muscles.  read more >> Amazon, HBO, ITV, Tottenham Hotspur & EA Sports Involved As ‘Immersive Technology In Sports & Entertainment Summit’ Gathers Speed   The Immersive Technology In Sports & Entertainment Summit (London, April 18-19) is about how we make the entire physical world as connected and digitally interactive as the World Wide Web.  It lies at the intersection between the digital and physical spaces and is the platform for further engagement and reach.  The global entertainment and media market is set to break $2trillion and the global sports market alone will break $100billion by the end of 2017. Sports, Gaming and Entertainment present the biggest mediums for engagement in the key target demographics for leading consumer facing brands. read more >> Sports Innovation Network & Kan Consulting To Produce Case Study Led White Paper On Immersive Technology In Sports   The Sports Innovation Network alongside Kan Consulting are producing an end-to-end white paper on immersive technology and how it will impact the sports and entertainment industries. Driven by research with leaders across leagues, teams, broadcasters, brands and immersive tech companies this will be built upon solid business-cases and industry led cases studies. Follow the link here to complete our research survey (ten minutes) and receive a copy of the report when released later this year. http://sgiz.mobi/s3/02f1a97c8f30 Upcoming Events  read more >> read more >>   read more >>