Super Bowl 50 Shines Spotlight on Silicon Valley’s Technology Innovation

While the average ticket price was about $4,000 and $5,000 last week, likely due to secondary market re-sellers setting prices high to see what they can get, fans can find seats for fairly significantly cheaper. But don’t stress! We’ve got answers to all of your burning Super Bowl questions, so read on for a refresher of everything you need to know before tuning in this Sunday.

Upgrades to NRG Stadium have been underway, mandated by the National Football League in order for Houston to host the Super Bowl next year.

In Europe, big team games come with a drink and a few songs and plenty of perfectly legal gambling, but the main thrust of the action is usually the game itself, whether we’re talking football (or soccer in North America), rugby or cricket.

And when the cheers erupt for the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers, the spotlight won’t just be on the biggest game in the football season, but on the tech companies that pitched in during the weeklong festivities. They were sold to a San Jose resident. So you’re going be seeing a lot of activity, a lot of events going on downtown.

Silicon Valley is putting its high-tech touch on Super Bowl 50 to make game day an experience unlike any other.

While it’s great that fans in-stadium will have access to better technology, fans watching the game at home shouldn’t feel left out, as CBS has upped the ante with its camera technology for this year’s game.

Still, with some Super Bowl commercials reaching nearly legendary proportions in the American psyche, there’s no shortage of applicants. Twitter will also have special emojis for the Super Bowl and a separate tab for the game in the site’s “Moments” feature, which allows fans to follow tweets about live events, including sports, by clicking on the lightning bolt icon.

According to a report from the Associated Press, the new replay system installed for the game will “give viewers a 360-degree perspective and higher resolution than previously ever seen for the game”.