SailGP launches app to offer a strategic view with AR

El visor Tabletop iOS at Home de SailGP It allows racing fans to transform any flat surface into a racecourse with live data and interactive actions enabled by augmented reality (AR).

The new application projects a detailed and real-time 3D model of the regattas directly on the spectator's table, who will have a “control” total About the way you see the action: Using intuitive gestures, users can pinch, zoom and rotate to explore every angle of the race. The visual experience is completed by SailGP's AR graphical overlay, LiveLine, which brings fans closer to the action with a unique view of the tactical decisions and strategy, including real-time boat speeds, wind changes and much more.

The Tabletop Viewer is one of the first features for aficionados, driven by Oracle, which will be deployed throughout the 2025 season, “the most technologically advanced SailGP season to date.” The news follows the launch of augmented reality and virtual reality features in the app to enhance the viewing experience with immersive perspectives and live graphical overlays, rolling out at the end of season four.

Warren Jones, CTO of SailGP, highlights the company's latest innovation: "With the launch of our new tabletop viewer, fans will be able to enjoy SailGP like never before. We constantly strive to make the sport more accessible, more attractive and more immersive for fans and this technology does exactly that. Our boats already compete just meters from the coast, but now we bring fans even closer to the action and provide them with information in real time, wherever they are in the world. This means that fans do not “They will miss not a moment of the action unfolding right in front of them.”