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PlaySight Interactive

PlaySight Interactive is company that combine camera, artificial intel igence and sports.[1] It offers smart sports video platform for over 25 sports and across 20 countries.[2] For example basketball, tennis, ice hockey and soccer.[3][4] There are over 1000 SmartCourts lockated around the world. You can find the SmartCourts there: Golden State Warriors, Toronto Raptors, Detroit Pistons and Phoenix Suns and over 70 NCAA sports programs, including Harvard University, the University of Southern California, Indiana University, Claremont Colleges, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Princeton University.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] The United States Tennis Association has PlaySight's SmartCourt technology on 32 courts in Lake Nona, Florida.[12] PlaySight was one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2017 and 2018.[13][14][15]

PlaySight Interactive
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PlaySight was founded in Kfar Saba, Israel, in 2010. They used technology with roots in the Israeli military.[16] At first the three partners were developing weaponry and war simulators for the Israeli army. After one of the partners, Evgeni Khazanov, looling for his daughter’s tennis practice. He wondered why a sport with so much money did not have any advanced technology to help players improve their game.

The technology was commercialized in 2013. Later it was adapted for many other sports including soccer, martial arts, volleyball, squash, handball, gymnastics, dancing, hockey and wrestling. PlaySight costs $20 million and now has offices in Kfar Saba, New Jersey and Los Angeles.[17]

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  1. ↑ "NJCAA strikes partnership with Playsight Interactive". 28 November 2018.
  2. ↑ "CEO Center Stage: Chen Shachar, Founder & CEO of PlaySight". Archived from the original on 2022-01-21. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  3. ↑ "How a Tennis-First Technology Platform Expanded to over 20 Sports in 5 Years". 13 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "What is PlaySight". PlaySight. Archived from the original on 26 June 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "Tennis Technology: Smarten up!". Tennis Industry Magazine. Archived from the original on 16 November 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  6. ↑ Leung, Diamond. "PlaySight's SmartCourt expansion into pro basketball begins with Golden State". Sports Illustrated.
  7. ↑ Rossingh, Danielle. "US Open: Is a smart court the secret weapon to beat Serena Williams?". CNN. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "PlaySight Live Streaming the 2017 NCAA Championships from the University of Georgia". College Tennis Today. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  9. ↑ "PlaySight's Smart Sports Video AI Technology Gives FDU Basketball an Edge in 2018-19".
  10. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-06-19. Retrieved 2022-01-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ↑ "CMS Tennis joins the ranks of elite programs that use PlaySight SmartCourt technology". 28 February 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. ↑ Rothenberg, Ben (2016-08-27). "An Electronic Set of Eyes to Feed Data to Tennis Players and Coaches". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
  13. ↑ "Most Innovative Companies". Fast Company. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  14. ↑ "PlaySight Partners with Recently-Retired Ana Ivanovic as Tech Platform Continues Growth".
  15. ↑ "PlaySight Interactive: Most Innovative Company".
  16. ↑ Daniel, Kaplan. "Smart court maker PlaySight helps push boom in tennis tech". SportsBusiness Journal. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  17. ↑ Rubin, Eliran. "The Israeli Startups Leading the Digital Sports Revolution". Haaretz.
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