Virtual Eye News

Members of our Golf Remote Operations team impressed during New Zealand's latest lockdown due to Covid 19, forming a live-in bubble at ARL's newly renovated offices in Dunedin for the duration, ensuring Virtual Eye could still provide computer-generated graphics of ball flight paths and virtual fly-throughs of golf courses for coverage of events on both the PGA and European Tours.

above: A 'One News' item about the Virtual Eye Golf remote operations team camped out at our offices under lockdown.

In August, we were covering concurrent PGA and European tour events, starting with the WGC FedEx St. Jude Invitational at TPC Southwind and the Hero Open in Scotland. The Wyndham Championship in North Carolina and the Cazoo Classic 2021 (English Open) were the next pairing, before the trio of simultaneous tournaments The Northern Trust, D+D Real Czech Masters and Women's British Open were also supplied with graphics thanks to the dedication of our aforementioned 'in-house' team. The BMW Championship on the PGA Tour and the Omega European Masters on the European Tour were also served by the same crew. Broadcast coverage of the Major League Baseball season continued, enhanced by MLB's StatCast 3D product.

In July, the Major League Baseball calendar included the All Star Game and Home Run Derby, a good time for Virtual Eye to add Augmented Reality overlay support into MLB's StatCast 3D product. MLB's StatCast 3D is used by MLB Network and other major broadcasters to enhance their game coverage.

above: MLB StatCast 3D Augmented Reality in action during the 2021 MLB All Star Game at Coors Field in Denver.

Our Virtual Eye Golf remote operations teams were again covering concurrent events, beginning on the first of the month with the Rocket Mortgage Classic on the PGA Tour and the Irish Open on the European Tour. The next two tournaments were the John Deere Classic and the Scottish Open, before our annual coverage of The Open Championship at Royal St. Georges. The week after The Open provided our teams with the challenge of providing graphics for four simultaneous events - the 3M Open on the PGA Tour, the Cazoo Wales Open at Celtic Manor, the Senior Open at Sunningdale GC and the Evian Championship on the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour. The ISPS Handa World Invitational capped off July for Virtual Eye Golf.

PGA TOUR TOURCast runs on the web and on multiple devices, tracking the action of golf players playing on the PGA Tour in real-time on an interactive 3D model, that also features Tee shot shapes using TrackMan radar and SHOTLink (powered by CDW) shot trails.