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Building Virtual Worlds

02 Sep 2011
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Ever Wondered (TVNZ 7) searches high and low for answers to today's most challenging scientific questions. In an episode featuring New Zealand technology firms on the leading edge of Virtual World graphics, scientist John Watt visits Animation Research Limited in Dunedin. CEO Ian Taylor tells the story of ARL and Virtual Eye, and ARL programmer Geoff Bolton explains the process of developing the ball-tracking software used throughout Channel 9 Sports 'The Ashes 2010' Cricket coverage.

The 140th Open Championship

23 Jul 2011
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ARL's Virtual Eye golf team attended the Open Championship on a windswept Royal St Georges this year. During the leadup to the event, HSBC Golf Club (TV3) interviewed ARL/Virtual Eye CEO and sports fan Ian Taylor as he set up to deliver realtime 3D graphics for the BBC's TV coverage. We are shown Virtual Eye spotters on course and Virtual Eye operators during broadcast, while Ian gives an insight into the technology and techniques used to bring virtual Royal St Georges to TV screens around the world.

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"The 3D graphics deliver an experience for the trainee as close to the real thing as possible. Even sun-strike and raindrops on the cab windows are replicated with incredible realism."
Mark Griffin - Product Development Manager, Airways New Zealand (July 2012) -Total Control 2006

"The... technology supplied by Animation Research Ltd is superior to anything seen previously, and testing has delivered the most consistent data our company has ever had."
Jason Paris - Head of Emerging Business, TVNZ (Louis Vuitton Pacific Series 2009) - Louis Vuitton 2009

"We have all been truly overawed with the power... of the system, it's modelling, and it's operation. It is, by a long way, the best 3D that I have worked with anywhere..."
Richard Carr, Senior Producer, Formula One, BBC. (January 2011) - Monte Carlo 2012

"We are thrilled with the energy and enthusiasm that (ARL) has brought to the table... It is a real case of a Kiwi company combining a No.8 wire attitude with world-class technology."
Michael Glading - New Zealand Open Tournament Director (February 2014) - NZ Open 2015

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