Vizrt Scoops IBC Award

Vizrt won the Innovation Award at IBC2014 for its work on Monday Night Football for Sky Sports. The company received the award on Sunday 14 September together with technical partners Motion Analysis and Chyron Hego.

Vizrt UK MD Rex Jenkins accepted the award along with Mike Ruddell from Sky Sports, and Mark Bowden from ChyronHego. Vizrt worked with Sky Sports and ChyronHego to create the studio production for Monday Night Football.
A requirement of the Sky Sports studio is that the virtual studio graphics should sit alongside and be indistinguishable from the physical-set elements. Sky's creative team has been designing Vizrt 3D graphics for live coverage for over 10 years, but given the complexity of the 3D studio design and required functionality built into it, care had to be taken to ensure graphics-rendering performance was optimised to run in real-time.
Vizrt collaborated with the Sky Engineers who needed to learn how to operate and support the new technology. From the time when the installation started and to the first live-broadcast show in August 2013, regular training-sessions were conducted for Sky designers and technical staff at Sky and the Vizrt UK staff.
Presenters can utilise data driven graphics displayed in monitors or immersed into the studio as part of the virtual set. Using a tracking system by MotionAnalysis, the virtual set is able to be tracked with precision, allowing the physical and virtual set appear seamless as the camera pans from one section to another.

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