hockey
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The 9 U.S. Stadiums Already Using Facial Recognition at Games
When the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team introduced its new “Go-Ahead Entry” facial recognition authentication method last week, it was intended to decrease wait times and increase efficiency. In reality, according to Axios, it did just the opposite. Glitches in the system accidentally picked up the faces of others waiting in lines, forcing security to create…
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High-Speed Projectors Power This Virtual Air Hockey With Shape-Changing Paddles
If you’ve spent any time at a modern arcade you’ve probably seen air hockey tables upgraded with glowing pucks and paddles that make the game more visually appealing. Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan have taken those upgrades one step further in a version of air hockey that replaces the pucks and paddles with shape-changing…
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18 Names for Amazon’s ‘Climate Pledge Arena’ That Would have Made More Sense
So we’re really doing this, huh?
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How An Indoor Arena Makes An Ice Hockey Rink
Video: Here’s a glimpse of the process of how an NHL arena turns a concrete slab into an official ice hockey rink. It’s footage from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, a place that’s hard enough to get water (let alone ice). The process of putting the ice rink together is quite quaint, it involves…