SailGP Season 5: Enhanced LiveLine graphics bring augmented reality to chase boats

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Friday, November 22, 2024 - 10:32
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An essential part of the SailGP broadcast is its broadcast graphics package LiveLine, which projects augmented boundaries – and branding – onto the racecourse.

For season 5 of the racing series which is produced remotely from Ealing in west London, some new technology will also be used at SailGP’s race locations around the world.

Explains SailGP executive producer Chris Carpenter: “Our Emmy-award-winning LiveLine team has been working hard to enable the overlay of our augmented graphics onto our chase boat feeds for the first time.

“It’s going to open up a whole world of new, different perspectives”

To help viewers understand the sport, SailGP’s Emmy Award-winning broadcast graphic package LiveLine projects augmented boundaries onto the racecourse. These can also be used to display logos from SailGP’s commercial partners.

Tom Peel, director of LiveLine, at Ealing Broadcast Centre 

“Traditionally, we have only shown these graphics over the helicopter angles but introducing them to the chase boat camera means the viewer stays in the AR world, and our storytelling and presence of our commercial supporters are more consistent throughout the race action,” he says.

Earlier this week, SailGP announced Rolex as the first title partner for the racing championship.

The partnership will include a suite of updated broadcast graphics across SailGP’s broadcast graphics, LiveLine, course maps, turning marks, and other live features.

And, for the 2025 season, SailGP global partner and airline partner Emirates will also have an expanded brand presence across SailGP’s LiveLine broadcast production – with features including the ‘Emirates Finish’ and ‘Emirates Fly Time’ making their television debut from the season-opener in Dubai.

SailGP director of LiveLine Tom Peel says: “We’ve been doing augmented reality from the helicopter for a long time, and so we’re bringing that down to the chase boat.

“Initially it will look very similar to the helicopter in terms of graphics, but it’s going to open up a whole world of new, different perspectives that we can show, different graphics and so on. It will also be another camera that drives media value, because we’re able to put the 3D boundary and the branding on. That’s going to come online from Auckland.”

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