“MLB At The BallparkNext week, Major League Baseball will begin rolling out thousands of iBeacons in ballparks around the country according to a source familiar with the plans who shared them with MacRumors,” Jordan Golson reports for MacRumors.
“The league is looking to have twenty parks outfitted with roughly 100 iBeacons each by Opening Day at the end of March,” Golson reports. “Boston, Milwaukee, San Diego, LA Dodgers, and San Francisco are among the teams that will have iBeacons installed.”
“The iBeacons will work with primarily with MLB’s At The Ballpark app, demonstrated at Citi Field last fall. The app should be updated by Opening Day with iBeacon support,” Golson reports. “There are a number of potential use cases including point of interest information, concessions, loyalty and rewards programs, shopping, and more. ”
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Well done!!! Looking forward to this!!
What about the handful of Android users that want this functionality?
Jellybean added support as an iBeam consumer. All iDevices can also become iBeacons.
I would imagine Vegas to follow suit real quick.
The thing I don’t understand is who makes these beacons and what do they look like? Are they made by Apple or can anybody make them?
If they are Apple only then I can see them being on to another winner here.
Explanation and photo: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/123730-apple-s-ibeacons-explained-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters
Thanks Silverhawk1,
I consider myself educated now 🙂
But yet you still can’t enter Yankee Stadium with an iPad!
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/guide/yankee-stadium/
Yanks need to worry about fielding a fucking team and less on iPads.
I don’t care if they can fuck as long as they can pitch and hit.
heh.
If iBeacons are aware of My location, which they must be, how about adding a beer button into the app. Push button and beer is delivered to your seat. And wait, bring some nachos too. App could cover payment too, so no fumbling money exchange with refreshment runner.