NHL Puts Chips in Players and Pucks to Craft Game of the Future
- Six tech companies pilot commercial opportunities for data
- Virtual reality puts fans on the ice with the home team goalie
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For more than four years, the National Hockey League has sought the ability to track where every player is on the ice at all times. This week, that technology was tested for the first time in a regular-season game.
During the last two Vegas Golden Knights home games, players wore chips inside their shoulder pads which, alongside a connected puck, provided the most comprehensive data ever collected from an NHL game. The league asked six different tech companies, spanning virtual reality and sports gambling, to showcase possible uses for the data.