The revolutionary two-sided oval videoboard at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles has a new name: Infinity Screen by Samsung, referencing the builder of the display. Stadium Tech Report has previously reported on the videoboard’s attributes, in a profile from last year when the venue opened. In an earlier time, the videoboard was known casually as […]
Column: Fans are returning. Is your venue really ready?
As spring turns into summer, it seems like every day there are new pieces of good news arriving. With more areas of the country seeing the pandemic in recession, more and more cities and states are giving venues permission to hold full-attendance events. For those of us in the events business as well as those […]
Review: T-Mobile / MLB AR app falls short during Home Run Derby
Like a hot prospect who shows lots of promise, the T-Mobile / MLB AR app put out for this year’s Home Run Derby had some exciting flashes of talent but in the end it just wasn’t good enough to make the big-league roster. Here at Stadium Tech Report we were excited to see the app […]
Coors Field gets Wi-Fi 6 upgrade ahead of All-Star Game
When Major League Baseball moved this year’s All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver, it no doubt set off a lot of organizational scrambling in order to get Coors Field ready to host the sport’s mid-summer celebration. Even with a full house of fans expected in July, one thing that didn’t cause any last-minute chaos was […]
University of Arizona taps 1337 Facilities to build ‘flexible’ esports center
After bursting onto the sporting mindset a few years ago with a huge bang, the idea of live-attendance “esports events,” or fans watching competitive organized gaming, has had some problems living up to the hype. While projections of Super Bowl-sized crowds assembling to watch live gaming events haven’t quite materialized yet, the undeniable popularity of […]
Will stadiums embrace smart poles for parking lots?
If providing technology inside a stadium is an accepted idea, bringing more technology to the spaces just outside stadiums — mainly parking lots — is still a work in progress. While venues have tried different types of one-off integrations, like attaching Wi-Fi or cellular antennas to existing light poles, some new offerings are coalescing around […]
