While you’re soaking up the Aussie summer of cricket and tennis, here’s a fun fact to serve up between overs – a recent study compared Hawk-Eye’s ball tracking to Vicon’s gold-standard motion capture. The result? Hawk-Eye was within just 36.8 mm on average of the true ball flight! Not bad for a system originally built to call the lines. It’s a great reminder that when precision matters – whether it’s a forehand winner or a perfect delivery – Vicon sets the benchmark.
Research paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17543371251381488
