QuesTec Debuts
TennisProView at the ATP
Tour World Championship
Deer Park, N.Y.
Friday, December 11, 1998 -
QuesTec Imaging, Inc. (QuesTec),
(NASD-BB: QSTI), and Live Motion
Company (LMC) of Wiesbaden,
Germany announce the debut of TennisProViewTM on ZDF National German
Television, during this
year’s ATP Tour World Championship
from Hannover, Germany. Using
QuesTec’s TennisProView
system, LMC (who has the
exclusive European distribution
rights for QuesTec products)
produced almost 4 minutes of
on-air serve analysis and virtual
replays during this year’s
tournament. ZDF aired
TennisProView for their
pre-match, match and post-match
coverage of the ATP Tour World
Championship. The television
audience was treated to a new and
unique perspective of the types
of serves, various speeds, match
patterns and Aces. During
ZDF’s pre-match programming
for the finals, TennisProView was
utilized to display and animate a
virtual replay of all Pete
Sampras’ 15 Aces during his
loss in the semi-finals to Alex
Corretja. ZDF was one of many
networks which evaluated
TennisProView last summer in
Hamburg, Germany during the Davis
Cup. In addition to Sampras and
Corretja, the ATP Tour World
Championship Tournament field of
players included Marcelo Rios,
Carlos Moya, Andre Agassi, Tim
Henman, Karol Kucera, Greg
Rusedski, Yevgeny Kafelnikov and
Albert Costa.
This was LMC’s
first televised production
featuring QuesTec’s sports
analysis and virtual replay
broadcast enhancement technology.
QuesTec and LMC signed a
strategic alliance agreement on
June 10, 1998 for the research,
development and distribution of a
virtual replay, broadcast
enhancement system for the sport
of tennis. In addition to the ATP
Tour World Championship, LMC
handles TV-production for as many
as fifteen tennis tournaments a
year, which has included the
Davis Cup, the Compaq Grand Slam
and Wimbledon.
As stipulated in the
June 10th agreement,
QuesTec will retain the exclusive
distribution rights throughout
North America, the Caribbean and
Bermuda, while LMC will retain
exclusive distribution rights for
Europe, Dubai and the United Arab
Emirates. Due to the high speeds
reached by the ball during tennis
serves, innovative new technology
has been developed by Atlantic Aerospace
Electronics Corporation (AAEC) of Waltham,
Massachusetts for the tracking
mechanism of the system.
AAEC’s director of software
engineering, Paul Baim, was also
present during the first few days
of the tournament to supervise
the installation process and
ensure proper data collection for
additional development and system
enhancement. LMC principals Felix
Marggraff and Heiko Schweim are
distributing TennisProView, as
well as QuesTec’s
GolfProView in Europe under the
company name of 101 Images.
"This new
tennis application is being
marketed for $25,000 U.S. per
event, with projected revenues
for licensing fees, royalty fees
and product services to be about
$2.5 million for the next two (2)
years. Our recent partnership
with AAEC makes this and other
new product releases a near term
reality. The ability to leverage
the experience, know-how and
technology of AAEC, LMC and
QuesTec has significantly raised
the standards for sports
analysis, computer visualization
and virtual replay systems,"
said Mike Russo, President of
QuesTec.
QuesTec develops and
markets proprietary software
systems that capture, render, and
display real-time graphic
simulations that can be applied
to sports entertainment, display
media, business and industry.
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For more information
on QuesTec Imaging, Inc. contact
Mike Russo at (631) 243-1880 or
visit www.questec.com.
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statements. Michael Russo -
President
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