PlaySight Interactive

PlaySight Interactive is company that combine camera, artificial intel igence and sports. It offers smart sports video platform for over 25 sports and across 20 countries. For example basketball, tennis, ice hockey and soccer. 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. The United States Tennis Association has PlaySight's SmartCourt technology on 32 courts in Lake Nona, Florida. PlaySight was one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2017 and 2018.

 History 
PlaySight was founded in Kfar Saba, Israel, in 2010. They used technology with roots in the Israeli military. 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. 

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Category:Technology companies of Asia
Category:2010 establishments in Asia
Category:2010s establishments in Israel