"Our vision is a fully immersive stadium experience from home" (Tom Impallomeni, Virtually Live)

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"Our vision is to enable the long tail of the sports fanbase -- the 98% of fans who don't actually get to go to stadiums because of geographical or financial reasons, to have a fully immersive stadium experience from home. Doing so will help us achieve our mission to be the number one platform for live sports in virtual reality," said Tom Impallomeni, the CEO of Virtually Live, a technology company specialising in bringing virtual reality experiences to the market, to News Tank Football on 23/12/2015.

"The concept for Virtually Live was born out of a group of sports fans and technology enthusiasts wanting to watch the games together but being in different parts of the world. Virtually Live is a cutting edge, transformative technology enabling multi-sensory immersive experiences. For us, one of the critical consumer applications for virtual reality is live sports, and trying to improve the way that sport is broadcast. Improving the fan experience is what we aim to do," added the CEO of Silicon Valley-based (California, USA) company.

"(For clubs), there is the opportunity to provide…

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