More Than Immersive: The aboutGolf Simulator Experience

As you approach the green of St Andrews hole 18, every bird, tree, flag and building surround you with perfect clarity. And you haven’t even left the comforts of your living room.

Looking to get in 18 without leaving home? Always wanted to play Pebble? Now you can with the aboutGolf simulator experience.
The new aboutGolf PGA TOUR Compact SimSurround has the same 15-foot footprint as most standard simulator systems, including the aboutGolf PGA TOUR Classic, but offers the immersive experience only available in a three-screen unit.

Ideal for residences and indoor golf centers, the new, compact model makes the immersive experience more widely available. Homeowners with space limitations and commercial facilities looking to optimize floor space are no longer forced to choose between size and impact.

“The new Compact SimSurround offers all the wow factor of the original SimSurround in a smaller package,” says Chuck Faust, aboutGolf’s President and Chief Operating Officer. “We’re the only company offering this type of innovative system, which features all the technology golfers have come to expect from aboutGolf while engaging the golfer at a new level.”

The aboutGolf PGA TOUR Compact SimSurround – whose complete standard size is 15 feet wide by 20 feet long by 10 feet, 6 inches high – features PGA TOUR Software with range and course play, 29 standard courses, 3Trak ball-tracking technology and club data, as well as screen, enclosure, computer and turf.

Take it to the next level by adding the immersive play options; voice, sound and 3d to elevate the aboutGolf simulator experience.

Control the pace of play with your voice. aG Voice enables voice command for the most common menu functions in the aboutGolf simulator. Use a simple command to take a mulligan, continue, view a fly by, adjust the aim and more without interacting with a touch screen. aG Voice is optimized against a vast database making it friendly to many voices and has superior performance with background noise. Use the adaptation feature to train your system on highly unique voices.

Enhanced, dynamic sound creates a unique golfing experience in every round. aG Soundscape provides unique, contextual, environmental sound experiences with dynamic 3D surround sound in all aboutGolf golfing environments. Create a tournament atmosphere with the crowd sounds and speech synthesis features. With aG Soundscape, crowds will erupt in applause for a well played approach shot or sigh and bemoan for a closely missed putt. Activate speech synthesis to hear an announcer call the player and distance to the green or the pin.

Stand at the tee on Sawgrass 17, every bird, tree, flag and building surrounding you with perfect clarity. aG 3D introduces a new level of realism for golf simulators and changes the way golfers interact with simulated courses. Add aG 3D to the aboutGolf Simulator and experience more than 50 famous golf courses from around the world in cinema quality, advanced stereoscopic 3D using active shutter glasses technology. 2D and 3D modes let you enjoy a variety of simulator play and movie viewing options.

“The Compact SimSurround by aboutGolf provided everything I wanted – the size, the experience, the features and the price,” says Mickey Hamono, owner of a Compact SimSurround in Chicago. “The experience is absolutely just like the real thing; I can play Pebble Beach from home with coastline filling my view.”

The new aboutGolf PGA TOUR Compact SimSurround is priced at $62,000.