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Stadium Tech Report

October 10th, 2024

MLB

Feature

Photo Essay: Football at Wrigley Field

Football at Wrigley Field? Those of us old enough can remember the Chicago Bears playing next to the winter-dead ivy, with Gale Sayers romping for touchdowns next to the outfield bleachers. And in 2010, a college game between Northwestern and Illinois took place, but the teams could only rush toward one end zone because the full field didn't quite fit....

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News

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 in action, since we've been...

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Feature

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 the upgrading of the stadium's...

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News

New report: Coors Field gets Wi-Fi 6 upgrade ahead of All-Star Game

Stadium Tech Report is pleased to announce our Summer 2021 issue, which includes an in-depth profile of the new Wi-Fi 6 network upgrade at the Colorado Rockies’ Coors Field, which will host the Major League Baseball All-Star Game this July. Planned ahead of the pandemic, the Coors Field network upgrade includes new equipment from Cisco and some innovative design and...

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News

T-Mobile, MLB bringing new AR app to Home Run Derby

Baseball fans looking for a new way to watch the All-Star Game Home Run Derby will have an augmented-reality option this year, via a new app developed by T-Mobile and MLB that will use 5G-connected cameras on player hats and catchers' masks to provide a player's point-of-view to the derby action. Though the 5G network that will power the app...

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Editorial

Stadium technology provided support for mass vaccination sites

While the Covid-19 pandemic kept many fans from attending live events the past year, that didn't mean that stadiums stayed empty. After first serving as Covid-19 test sites, since the start of the year many stadiums and arenas across the country lent their parking lots and indoor spaces to vaccination efforts, using the wide-open spaces and already-in-place resources like power,...

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