Apr 01

Tok.tv Baseball App Features Voice Chat Along With Sports Stats

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April 1, 2013 not only marks everyone’s least favorite holiday, April Fools’ Day, but it also marks the official start to baseball as MLB’s opening day is set to start later today. Getting your friends and family around your TV to watch the opening day festivities will be tricky on a Monday night, but a new app will allow you to watch baseball and still communicate with your friends or family while also giving you important stats regarding the game you’re watching.

Tok.tv is announcing they’re making it possible to not only deliver sports statistics to you through their TV app, but the service will also make it possible for you to voice chat with up to four remote people in order to make the experience as close to having people over as possible, without the need to clean up your apartment or ordering pizza for your guests. “We found voice is the medium to generate emotion, people don’t want to type home run, they want to yell home run,” said Tok.tv’s founder and chief executive Fabrizio Capobianco. (more…)

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Mar 26

Breakfast NY’s Mission Control Center merges MLB info with NASA-flair, uses 20 feet of switches and screens

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Breakfast NY's mission control center merges MLB info with NASAflair, uses 20feet of switches and screens

The team at Breakfast NY never leaves us hungry when it merges the digital and physical worlds — and this time it’s created something that hits it out of the park for the start of this year’s US baseball season. Here at the Major League Baseball Fan Cave in downtown NYC, the team has just unveiled its space program-inspired Mission Control Center. As creative director and co-founder Andrew Zolty explained, “the idea is try and pull in pretty much everything you can possibly imagine that’s going on during the 2013 MLB season, and do it in a way that feels reminiscent of NASA’s control room: Mission Control.”

The 20-foot-long installation houses two sets of 15 small screens (roughly eight inches each), broken up in the middle (one side for the American League teams and the other for the National League teams) by a large LCD and a consumer-grade webcam. Below the screens you’ll notice a plethora of switches with LEDs, info lights and a trio of odometers. Both sides feature three rows of five screens, each pertaining to one of the 30 MLB teams and their stadiums. At the flick of a switch, the screens display real-time connected data like recent Foursquare check-ins, weather, Facebook likes and Instagrams, along with team stats and facts and more for each individual stadium at once.

Gallery: Breakfast NY Mission Control Center at MLB Fan Cave

Gallery: Breakfast NY Mission Control Center (press images)

Those smaller screens, by the way, are actually physically modded Android-tablets — unfortunately, Breakfast wasn’t at liberty to tell us exactly which kind they are. Essentially, they are all running custom apps, with support from MLB.TV to pull real-time, live streams from each stadium in the league. In total, we’re told that 13 APIs and seven languages of software work in conjunction to makeup the Control Center. The setup will also allow players visiting the Cave to have live chats with with roughly 10 fans at a time who participate from MLB’s site (sort of like Google+) — of course, the chats allow an essentially unlimited number of spectators. Curious for more of the nitty gritty? Join us past the break.

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