Virtual Eye News

Major League Baseball began postseason play in October, which included the Wild Card games, the Division Series, the League Championship Series and World Series 2021 - all enhanced by MLB's StatCast 3D product during broadcast coverage.

Virtual Eye Golf began the month at the PGA Tour's Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi and the concurrent Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on the European Tour, remotely supplying our graphics to the relevant broadcasters. Following this was the Shriners Hospital Open at TP Summerlin and the Open de España at Club de Campo, before the next PGA/ET duo - The CJ Cup in Nevada and the Andalucía Masters in Spain. The final tournament of the month for Virtual Eye was the 7th-Annual East Lake Cup in Georgia, U.S.A.

The 140th year of Kiel Week, one of the largest sailing events in the world, took place in September - with almost 3000 sailors in over 900 sailing craft taking part in 21 competitions during the 9 day event, remote Virtual Eye graphics were able to show race data over the complete field during the live Kieler Woche TV broadcast, and also in more individual post-race Sailing Analytics debriefings.

above: Virtual Eye in use during the broadcast of Gold Race 6 on the final day of Kiel Week 2021

Virtual Eye Golf remote operations continued on both the PGA and European Tours, beginning with the concurrent TOUR Championship and the Italian Open tournaments. The BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth was next, followed by the simultaneous Fortinet Championship in California and the Dutch Open in Cromvoirt. The final Golf tournament of the month was the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. Broadcast coverage of Major League Baseball continued throughout September, enhanced by MLB's StatCast 3D product.