Weaver ( https://weavr.tv/ ) is a platform that uses live and historic data to create meaningful and personalised mixed-reality experiences for esports fans. We talk to Anders Drachen & Florian Block from the Arena Research Cluster (ARC)at the University of York who work with companies like ESL to develop Weavr. The ARC (https://arc.york.ac.uk/) is a global community of researchers from across academia and industry who work with esports and sports analytics.
Anders is on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/andersdrachen or https://andersdrachen.com/
Florian is on Twitter https://twitter.com/blockflorian and his website is http://florianblock.net/
Esports Research Network
Presenters: Dr. Brian McCauley https://twitter.com/DrBrianMcCauley https://ju.se/center/mmtc/people/researchers/2019-03-07-brian-mccauley.html
Dr. Stephanie Orme https://twitter.com/stephanieorme https://www.emmanuel.edu/academics/our-faculty/stephanie-orme.html
Esports Research Network
https://www.twitch.tv/esportsresearchnetwork
Music by John Bartmann https://johnbartmann.com
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