Virtual Eye News

Virtual Eye Golf, in partnership with Topgolf ® Toptracer, were at the first of 23 PGA Tour events we'll be covering this year in the USA, the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego. The PGA Tour work comes in addition to Virtual Eye's regular January of European Tour coverage, the Eurasia Cup in Kuala Lumpur, the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship and the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.

Virtual Eye Cricket also juggled concurrent fixtures, covering the New Zealand vs West Indies T20 series and the ODI series versus Pakistan at different venues in New Zealand, while also providing our tracking and infographics for the final Australia vs England Ashes Test and the subsequent ODI series in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

The Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 continued with Leg 4 of 11, from Melbourne to Hong Kong, a 5600 nautical mile voyage. Virtual Eye is providing 3D broadcast graphics, 3D race tracking in the browser and also via Mobile App for the duration of the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18.

In December, Virtual Eye showed the bathymetry of the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, for the World Surf League Billabong Pipe Masters. Virtual Eye Cricket team 1 began December covering the 2nd Ashes test in Adelaide, while Cricket Team 2 were in Wellington providing our tracking and infographics for the 1st test between New Zealand and the West Indies. Team 2 were then in Hamilton, Whangarei, Christchurch and Nelson covering the series of test matches, One Day Internationals and T20i matches between the two nations. Cricket Team 1, in the meantime, saw out the year covering the Third Ashes test in Perth and the Fourth Test in Melbourne.

Melbourne was also the destination of the Volvo Ocean Race teams, having begun the month with Inport Racing in Cape Town before heading into the Southern Ocean for Leg 3 to Australia. Virtual Eye is providing 3D broadcast graphics, 3D race tracking in the browser and also via Mobile App for the duration of the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18.