SportFlashback

SportFlashback is a general brand name for products and services related to visualizations of real sport events. SFB products and services are aimed at providing the world media with new ways of presenting details and features of soccer, cricket, rugby, American football and other sports.

The main expertise of SportFlashback is creation of 3D interactive on-line visualizations. Virtual Replays and Game Casting have proved to be of great interest for sport supporters in the whole world. These concepts extend traditional ways of sport coverage. They are not competitors, but a brilliant addition to the standard video, photo and graphic materials. Find all articles on the Archive page.

Ice Hockey World Cup 2009

SportFlashback produces Virtual Replays from the 2009 International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship matches. SFB client Blick.ch ordered virtual replays of the goals and the best moments of all Swiss team matches in the Preliminary and Qualification rounds and the best matches of the final stages of the championship. The agreement for the production, installation of the application and publication of the virtual replays on the web site took only one week.
Ice hockey is a fairly new sport for Virtual Replays by SportFlashback. Coverage of the hockey most exciting moments in 3D was introduced to the site visitors on the eve of the launch of the tournament and the first replays appeared in the site in the morning following the match day.
See more information about ice hockey in 3D on the Demo page and the Virtual Replays of the IIHF World Cup matches off Blick.ch site.

Virtual Replays for Television

VR TV is a perfect tool designed for TV journalists to broadcast Virtual Replays of various sport events on television.
VR TV concept provides a wide range of opportunities such as a possibility to broadcast Virtual Replays, add extra visual elements directly to the pitch during the broadcasting, reproduce Virtual Replays at different speeds, review the scenes from different angles and distance.
The updated version of VR TV application is realised on a 3D engine GESA (Graphics Environment for Scripted Applications) that provides a much wider range of visually rich facilities.
The customised interface for the journalist to comment on the Virtual Replay in the studio and actually operate the application in the live broadcasting has more facilities and is more user-friendly.
SportFlashback has created demo video showing most of the functionality and the visual effects of the application. For more detailed description see VRTV page.

Baseball

SportFlashback is broadening its horizons and is taking up new sports where the technologies of graphic presentations can be applied. Now that a number of sports like soccer, rugby, cricket, American football etc make up a great experience of the company, SportFlashback has come to tackle baseball.

Like any other sport it has its own characteristic features that make it unique as a sporting activity and from the technical and presentation points of view. It includes a great variety of possible player movements, a lot of unpredictable successions of events, a few actions taking place at different parts of the field at the same time etc. It all makes the task of 3D visualisation quite challenging and interesting.

SportFlashback team has produced a demo version of 3D scenes reconstructing most common baseball plays. The scenes can be viewed from various cameras – home plate, pitcher’s mound, bases, top view that cover all of the baseball diamond. The user can control the cameras to change angles and view the scenes with players’ eyes.

To present and promote the new initiative SFB produced a demo 3D video.

Champions League

In September 2008 SportFlashback released an offer to produce a package of Virtual Replays of the best moments of all Champions League matches of the season 2008-2009. Amongst the clients who are already receiving these replays and publish them on their web sites are Sky Sport (UK), Footballfan (Belgium) and My Free Sport (France). Our customers have already reported a very keen interest in the Virtual Replays section and a very positive feedback from their web site visitors.

SportFlashback for Australia

SportFlashback has found a new client in Australian Fox Sports branch. We produce weekly videos of football matches based on the animated 3D Virtual Replays. The videos present the best moments of A-League matches and are shown on Australian Fox Sports television channel.

Football Tactics Animator

SportFlashback product development team has just released a brand new product, Football Tactics Animator meant specially for sports journalists and commentators. It presents a new form of illustrating and explaining key moments of a football match, team tactics and coach’s home prepared tactical actions by means of allowing the user to recreate and animate scenes on the virtual 2D field. The current version is specially designed for football; however, it can be adapted for other games like American Football or Rugby.

This innovation appeals to:
• Owners of sports websites, newspapers and magazines
• Web newspapers and magazines that have a column dedicated to amateur, semi professional and professional football lessons
• Sponsors of sports events for advertising on their web sites
• Sport related web sites for some entertaining purposes

Visit Tactics Animator page, download instructions and animate your scheme.

SportFlashback Archive

On this page you will be able to see the archive of all the news pieces that have ever appeared on the SportFlashback home page in chronological order.