Virtual Eye News

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.

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.