LabHipermedia

Augmented reality is a tool that is progressing rapidly due to its many applications. For the most part, its current use is focused on entertainment where users immerse themselves in new worlds that allow them to have a totally realistic experience. However, in other cases, this technology is beginning to be important in fields of activity such as sports.

Our main guest of January is one of the top assistant referees, both national and internationally: Pau Cebrian Devis.

With countless matches officiated, including a Champions League final, we interview Mateu Lahoz´s right hand over the field of play through video call in order to review his whole refereeing career and to talk about some current affairs.

Atlético de Madrid ended up winning 2020/2021 LaLiga Santander title in one of the most equal and exciting seasons we remind. Sweeping at the beginning and suffering as only this team knows how to do at the end. There are many keys by which the men trained by Diego Pablo Simeone managed to prevail in the final sprint of the campaign against Real Madrid, Barcelona and Seville.

People who plan to initiate in the audiovisual content creation should pay special attention to Twitch. This platform is on its best moment: its  leadership on content streaming is indisputable. Twitch is way far beyond its competitors when we talk about the number of users who consume live content. This data just increase day after day. That means we are at the right moment if we plan to ride the wave: Twitch’s bubble raises every day and specialised media states that this will not change in a long term. Pandemic era hasn’t done anything but multiply this factor, turning the platform in the most influential in our country (even above YouTube). There are 7 million new users every day.

As all of us who enjoy football know, there are different types of formations and styles of play when trying to win a match. We must start from the fact that the tactics used depend on the preferences of the coach and other important circumstances of the event such as the different characteristics of the players and the knowledge of the opposing team.

Currently, the use of technology is totally generalized among the different existing sports. The new tools provided offer a multitude of uses that can improve team and player performance. Football has evolved enormously since its inception and one of the most prestigious clubs in the world such as Liverpool FC has been one of the benchmarks in terms of advances in this field.

At the beginning of the 20th century, football became more and more popular in society, so different championships began to be organized. Throughout history, numerous rankings have been made to decide which football league is the most important, since each country’s own competition is always the most desirable trophy for clubs and in which all football players aspire to play. From its beginnings to the present day, there have been numerous changes in the way it has been played and its conformation, so here we will tell you how each one of them has developed.

Statistics have become an essential tool for improving performance in football. The idea is that Big Data helps to improve decision-making and to minimize the margin of error, completing the knowledge of experts and constituting an effective working mechanism. It seems necessary for clubs that sports scientists interpret these statistics and their respective influence on team behavior. Several companies have specialized in data collection and analysis by signing contracts with clubs, sports federations or audiovisual producers.

As we all know, any high-performance sport represents an activity with a risk of suffering injuries as a result of the high physical demand. Thus, football, given that it is the most widely played sport in Spain -it has more than 900,000 federative licences, in addition to many other people who, although not federated, play it regularly- has many health benefits, but there are also threats.

The gaming world is a competitive and even hateful one, but it has also found a community of users that know how to deal with errors in the product and is able to formulate constructive criticism and take any opportunity that pops up during a game with a pinch of salt and a lot of humour. As a matter of fact, these mistakes have brought life to the gameplay channels that arrived years ago to stay. This makes it convenient to present every type of error that players can find during their games, being bugs the top-notch.