Virtual Reality Experience in Tennis Tournaments
The rapid development of technology also brings innovations in many areas. Finally, virtual reality glasses, which are one of the new technologies that are developing, managed to attract the attention of many people. Among the tennis tournaments followed, the US Open brings a new experience by taking advantage of virtual reality.
Spectators attending the tennis tournament will be able to benefit from the new experience called ‘you vs Sharapova’. As the name suggests, anyone with virtual reality glasses will be able to play a tennis match with Maria Sharapova. The feature in question was made ready as a result of a 9-hour study at the California VR studio. Thus, the user has the opportunity to meet Maria Sharapova services with a speed of 160 kilometers.
Virtual reality technology, which is still in its infancy, needs further development. In particular, the high internet speed and low latency (ping) are a determining factor for the success factor in games. Tennis e-Sports matches, which have just started to be organized, are currently included as “fun”; but artificial intelligence technology, which has the right algorithms against the player’s physical characteristics, playing technique and the way he hits the ball, will make e-Sports an alternative in the future.
Virtual Referee Decides
One of the sports in which ball tracking systems are most widely used is tennis. The system used in tennis to determine whether the ball is inside or outside the line uses 10 cameras that can record images at high speed. You may think that these cameras record the movement of the ball, and in controversial situations, the images are examined to determine which path the ball is following and where it fell. But the system does not work exactly that way. Given that the ball moves very quickly in tennis, it is understandable that it is very difficult for cameras to follow the ball with sufficient precision.
The Alternative Tennis of the Future
On August 28, 2020, the world’s first tennis esports tournament was held in Vienna. In the tournament, which uses virtual reality technology, the first-place team received its trophies. Tennis, whose history dates back to Egypt, Greece and the Romans, had entered the development process largely in thirteenth-century France. The game, which was played by passing a rope through the walls in closed areas, was called “Le Jeu du Paume“(the palm game). But this sport, played by hand, was more common among aristocrats, and it took time for it to the public. At one point, the palm game, which Decamped to the public in France, was banned and continued to remain palace tennis again. In this sport, which is almost identified with the aristocrats, the use of wooden rackets was switched over time. The rules of modern tennis were established by the Marylebone Cricket Club in England in 1875. The competitions that started on grass courts with the Wimbledon tennis tournament continued to be played on the clay and hard courts of different organizations in the following period. By the way, synthetic courts are used at the Australian Open, the first grand slam tournament of every new year.
