June 17, 2014, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age Conference, Stanford, CA—A panel addressed the changes in movie making, sports, and games due to new underlying technologies. Chris Bregler from NY University and Industrial Light and Magic moderated the panel, with members Marv White from ESPN, Kim Libreri from Lucas Film, and Erik Johnson…
July 11, 2013, Motion Tracking Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—David Troup from Xensr talked about the telemetry needs for extreme sports. This area calls for much more than just adding sensors and an RF link to a person or a piece of equipment. Data for extreme sports have special requirements. The gross quantification of data has…
March 20, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Sam Blackman from Elemental described the work involved that has changed sports content delivery. The evolution of hardware and software has enabled technology innovation. The major trends in video are towards proliferation of channels and platforms. The emergence of mobile platforms like phones and tablets draws more…
March 19, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA— Mark Muench and Christopher Pond from ESPN described their development efforts that allows use of 4K video in telecasts. Some of the issues associated with this high resolution imagery include applying multiple GPU processing, theoretical vs. practical transfer rates, gpuDirect, bandwidth, bus speed, and playback, together…
March 29, 2012, Sensors in Design, San Jose, CA—Karen Lightman, executive director of the MEMS Industry Group moderated a panel looking at the requirements for MEMS in sports. The panel consisted of Romain Lazerand from Syride, Per Slycke from Xsens, and Rob O’Reilly from Analog Devices. What do you get by applying MEMS to sports?…
November 3, 2011 – Monterey, CA – The MEMS Executive Congress continued the second day with presentation from further members including end users who were creating finished goods with the devices. This brought an overview of the development ecosystem for MEMS to start with process technology and devices and continue through final product development with…