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.

World Cup 2010

SportFlashback is happy to carry on with the experience of the previous years to offer 3D interactive animated visualisations of all goals and the most exciting moments in all matches of the UEFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. SportFlashback produced more than 300 Virtual Replays from the World Cup 2006 and the European Cup 2008 that millions of football fans from all around the world could see on more than 30 sites.

For the World Cup 2010 SportFlashback offers special packages of visualisations:

• 3D interactive Virtual Replays for web sites
• 3D video clips for web sites and television
• 3D video clips for mobile devices

For detailed information contact us on the e-mail on the image

Mobile Clips for FC Zenit

Together with the usual mobile content such as FC hymns and ringtones, images, quizzes and videos, supporters of Football Club Zenit in St. Petersburg, Russia are now able to download and enjoy Virtual Replays of all Zenit goals scored in the 2009 season on their mobile phones. In the 2010 Russian Premier League season SportFlashback will be producing Mobile Virual Replays of all Zenit goals on-line, so that the subscribers will be able to download the 3D visualisation 20 minutes after the goal has been scored. 3D Virtual Replays produced by SportFlashback are also published on the FC Zenit official web site http://www.fc-zenit.ru/mobile/index.phtml?id=28

Virtual Replays for Girondins

SportFlashback continues production of Virtual Replays for the French Ligue 1. Started earlier in the year with Olympique Lyonnais in Ligue 1, the project extends in its popularity. The new client - Girondins de Bordeaux, publish on their web site Virtual Replays of all goals and the best moments in Girondins matches in Ligue 1, Champions League, Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue.

NFL Videos for Washington Post

Regarding the previous year's experience in production of analytical 3D animated videos of NFL matches for The New York Times as very successful and praising the work done by SportFlashback, another US media leader The Washington Post orders a series of clips specifying tactical plays of all Washington Redskins matches in the NFL season 2009-2010. Each clip demonstrates the distinctive features characteristic of Redskins starting from the Exhibition season, through the Regular season and to the Playoff tournament.

The clips illustrate the play from different angles with three virtual cameras:

• General view of the play shown from a pseudo TV camera
• Aerial view flying camera showing the course of play from above
• Key players’ point of view

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.

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.