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The Gym Class team also includes CEO Matthew Harris, a former senior software engineer at Scientific Games. Katsen previously worked as the group product manager at Twitter. Movements such as a user’s real-life jumps will be repeated by their in-game avatars. Players control their full-body avatars through their own physical movements and hold the Quest controller to shoot, pass, dribble and dunk on customizable digital courts that users can design themselves. Gym Class allows those with a Quest VR headset to play online basketball with up to eight other people from around the world. The app has nearly a million downloads on the Meta Quest App Lab and is planned to launch this fall on the Meta Quest Store. Virtual reality basketball app Gym Class has raised an $8 million seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Y Combinator. His Crossover VC firm has invested in startups such as high school sports streaming provider Play On! Sports and social audio app Clubhouse, which has signed deals with the NFL and the NHL.

Lichtenstein has led the NBPA's technology programming since 2018. On the tour of company buildings, NBPA members learned about the day-to-day operations of each business and attended a networking dinner that included founders from more than 15 venture-backed startups. Tech Day LA was hosted in collaboration with Noah Lichtenstein, managing partner at early-stage venture capital firm Crossover VC. The one-day event was open to current and former members of the NBPA as part of its career development program and included visits to headquarters for aerospace firm SpaceX, video commerce platform Whatnot, and robotic delivery startup Coco. The National Basketball Players Association hosted its inaugural Tech Day LA last week in Los Angeles to give NBA players a first-hand look at working within the technology industry. Major League Soccer similarly dispenses its VAR conversations to the public, and, coincidentally, the MLS’ head of refereeing Howard Webb is about to join the Premier League as its referee chief. The EPL’s plan, going forward, is to release audio of VAR decisions post-match on YouTube, according to the London Times. Players such as Mikel Arteta, Antonio Conte and Thomas Tuchel have also openly complained about the digital officiating, and a high-profile VAR red card call involving Gabriel Martin last season escalated the displeasure. Exactly 98 goals were disallowed the first two years of its implementation- drawing the public’s ire-and spectators began questioning the referees’ decision-making process on offside calls, handball law and others. VAR transparency had become an issue for fans since the EPL first adopted Video Assistant Referee technology for the 2019-20 season. In an attempt to legitimize its use of video assistant referee, also known as VAR, the English Premier League will release public recordings of in-game deliberations between referees and replay officials.

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