VTRACK

The VTRACK launch monitor is a new overhead launch monitor from a South Korean company called Laon Swingcraft.

At the time of this review it is one of the the least expensive overhead launch monitors the market. I purchased the VTRACK for my build in my new simulator that I installed at the end of 2025. At that time, there were only a very small number of users who had used the launch monitor. It is brand new outside of South Korea, where the company is at.

I have been using the VTRACK for about one month. I wanted to put together a review and buyers guide that covered all of the research I put into choosing this launch monitor as well as cover everything new potential buyers should consider before making their purchase.

The short answer is that so far, I am extremely happy with my purchase. I’ll get into everything below so you can decide for yourself.

I am going to cover all of the basics about the unit, listing what all it measures, what requirements you need to meet in order to install it properly and use it as well as the performance of the unit. Essentially I go through all the things that were important to me (and more) in this review.

These are the questions I needed answered before making the decision to buy it for my new golf simulator build. Let’s get to it:

Vtrack 101- Why I Chose Vtrack For My New Sim

• Overhead.
• Lightning fast.
• Accurate.
• No club stickers needed
• Use any ball, marked or unmarked.
• Ball and club data.
• Slow-Mo video replay of impact
• Club impact location.
• Hit full bag, driver to putter.
• Large hitting zone.
• No additional subscription to play GSPro.
• Less expensive than competitors. (currently $4999 at my preferred vendor)

Choosing a Launch Monitor

Previously I was a foresight user.

My GC2 worked great in my original sim for the past 6 years. Very few complaints other than putting was challenging, on the shorter putts especially.

In my new simulator I wanted an overhead unit that I can set up perfectly once and leave it. I wanted video replay of the club hitting the ball. I wanted club data and impact location. The ability to have lefty’s able to play is also a nice bonus.

Those features made me want to go with an overhead launch monitor. The great news is that now there are a number of different overhead launch monitors to choose from. You can go to that page and see my updated list of todays best LM’s that sit overhead. This review will cover why I ended up choosing the Vtrack.

Researching The Vtrack Company Laon Swingcraft

The Vtrack is new to the market. Well, they are new to the US market and the rest of the world outside of South Korea. They have delivered 15000+ units and growing (according to comments on social media) in South Korea and rapidly expanding to the rest of the world.

While it is not as tested and polished as it’s main competitors, Protee VX and Uneekor Eye X series it offers a fantastic price point, no subscription fee’s and work with 3rd party software like GSPro. It made me take a long hard look.

I did not really know anything about the company who makes it now, and I like to know those things before making a big purchase.

So as usual I dug in for some research.

One of the first interesting things I found mentioned is that the Vtrack is apparently/possibly a re-branded Protee RLX.

The Protee RLX was going to be the higher end hardware version of the Protee VX, having cameras with 1800 fps cameras vs 1300 fps with AI and machine learning.

I don’t know exactly the relationship, but Protee and Laon are somehow involved or at least have business relationships. Perhaps Laon Swingcraft decided to focus on this hardware and Protee remained focused on their initial system, the Protee VX.

You can see this for yourself at this post from FourSeasonSims on reddit. And I also found some users mentioned it on the Discord protee channel back in 5/7/25 and finally I saw where Par2Pro did a video back at the PGA show in 2023 where they showed the Protee VX and their Protee RLX, which looks just like the Vtrack.

So, knowing that this was the at least rumored to be the upgraded hardware version of the Protee VX, I was willing to strongly consider it. I watched a handful of Joe Lagowski’s reviews on youtube which are a must watch and with that information in hand I was comfortable pulling the trigger on the V Track. Jlag has an entire video series looking at all of the current capabilities of the system as well as thorough tests of hitting every shot in the bag. Watch them (linked above).

Also I just found another piece of suspect information – A youtube commenter named “IndoorGolfProPGA posts that the Laon company is somehow connected to Protee. (comments are below video) The commenter is kind of an asshole about it and I guess he had been posting on a lot of Joe’s videos in a negative light, I’m not sure but it does seem to frustrate Joe who does say “And you think I don’t know about the relationship between Protee and Laon Group? You don’t think I’ve talked to both companies.” (taken from that same comments section).

I don’t know for sure what all is going on there but if there is a relationship between Laon and Protee then I am all the more likely to be confident in purchasing the Vtrack. I don’t know and honestly as far as the Vtrack company goes – I’m confident in my purchase.

Laon Swingcraft is a division of the Laon People company of South Korea that is focused on ‘Machine Vision Learning and AI integration’. They have been around since 2010. And I read other commenters claim that they had delivered 15,000 units to users in South Korea already. Quality software upgrades were / are coming. As I type this review there is an AI swing analyzer and camera integration scheduled for early 2026 for release at the PGA show in January. And they have more upgrades expected down the pipeline. I’m ok with being early with them.

Vtrack Data Measured – Ball & Club Data

Here are the data points collected by Vtrack:

I snagged this photo of my ’tiles available in GSPro for display:

Vtrack measures ball data and some club data.

Ball Data Measured

• Ball Speed
• Launch Angle
• Launch Direction
• Total Spin
• Back Spin
• Side Spin
• Spin Axis
• Rifle Spin
• Total Distance
• Apex
• Carry
• Land Angle
• Side
• Side Total
• Flight Time
• Ball Flight

For ball data, they track logo’s. The do not do dimple tracking, instead they track logo’s or markings. Use a ball with a logo. I’ve used Titleist Pro v’s, TP5 Pix, and a friend uses a low compression Taylor Made. All have worked no problems.

All balls do have a logo or something for the cameras to grab onto and measure.

Club Data Measured

• Club Speed
• Attack Angle
• Club Path
• Impact Horizon
• Loft
• Smash Factor
• Face Angle
• Face To Path
• Impact Vertical

At the time of this review, it appears that Vtrack measures impact location and the rest of the club data is calculated at the moment. – Kinda… club data is also measured and those measurements are compared to their algorithms ai calculations to make sure they all sync up properly. Way back in June of 2025, this post was made on the Vtrack facebook group. This is apparently an email from Laon about how they get their data. (Ball data is all measured, club is measured + calculated)

For club data, they say this:

“Our club data is primarily based on measured values. Only the Loft Angle and Face Angle are calculated, while all other club parameters are measured directly through our system“

So they do go on to explain more

“We initially estimate club data based on ball data, but this is not what we ultimately provide to users.
The estimated values are always compared with the actual measured club data that our system has collected and analyzed.
If the measured data is successfully captured, that becomes the basis for the final output.

In cases where the system is unable to capture the measured data, we use the estimated values instead. This may cause some occasional inaccuracies, but our default approach is to prioritize and provide measured data.“

Additionally, we are currently working on enhancing our algorithm for club data measurement.
Our goal is to move toward a system that relies entirely on measured data, without needing to fall back on estimation. This upgrade is already in progress, and we are confident it will significantly improve both accuracy and consistency.

This was many months back when these emails were published so I expect that things have improved now.

My experience has been that the system is deadly accurate. Shot’s go where I expect them to and behave how I expect them to.

I’m not as good of a ball striker as Joe Lagowski and he has videos of him trying to and successfully hitting high draws, low draws, high and low fades and virtually every shot in between and it gives him the results he expects.

My friends and I know it reads shanks just fine lol.

Things To Know Using the Vtrack

• Use marked or un-marked ball. Just make sure there is SOME sort of logo or marking on the ball. The camera units do not dimple track, instead they track logo’s and markings. Any logo’d ball should work. A totally plain white ball could cause difficulty.
• Do not use white or light colored tee’s. These can trick the cameras to follow the tee instead of the ball.
• Be cautious about using white on the top of your driver. Some drivers have a white head or white markings on the top and it can make things confused like what is likely happening in this post by a user in the Vtrack group that has a white area just in the front face of his driver.
• When you look at the Vtrack data page, if the numbers are shown in orange it means that they were calculated and not measured.

Video Replay of Impact – Love it

I love the video replay of club impact.

You can stop the video, fast forward, rewind it and pause it to look at the shot in detail. It replays until the system picks up the ball for your next shot.

So if you want to watch your replay, make sure to not bring a ball into the hitting zone. Once the unit locks on to a ball for the next shot, the video replay goes away.

Video replay is one of the main things I really wanted to see in my new sim.

I have learned over the last month that I have a slight bias towards hitting on the inside of my club. I’m much more likely to hit the heel than the toe. I had no real idea of this before watching my shot replay.

Requirements For Use / Installation

• Ceiling height needs to be at least 2700mm (106.3 inches) and can go up to to 122″ or 3000mm. I did find a more niche answer here where – Paul R explains how he hung his Vtrack in his ceiling joists and the bottom of the Vtrack to the top of the hitting mat measured 103″ and it worked no problem.
• You need power and ethernet to a PC (they provide extremely long ethernet cable)
• It is ceiling mounted about 35″ inches or so in front of your hitting zone depending on ceiling height.
• It mounts directly into the ceiling, or in my case into a board mounted into a metal beam on the ceiling of my metal building.

My Early Thoughts about Buying the Vtrack?

I love it.

It’s fast, it’s accurate and the software is improving positively on the regular.

There are virtually no misreads and the speed at which it displays the shot is the absolute fastest I’ve experienced or seen watching sim golf on youtube.

Saving the $1500 or so on the price of the Protee VX was worth it to me to go with an untested and not as quite refined product. Plus I wanted to be one of the early guys who can provide a real quality review of the Vtrack along with Joe Lagowski whom you all should watch for sure.

By going with the Vtrack I’ve gotten faster cameras and also saved money. While the corporate connections between Laon and Protee are murky, there is certainly some sort of relationship there. And that is not a negative in my book.

I was leaning Protee VX for a long time when choosing the pieces and parts of my new sim. I knew I wanted overhead and I knew I did not want to pay an additional subscription fee to play GSPro. I was fairly certain I was going Protee VX, until I started hearing about the VTRACK. Learning that everything is likely very similar to Protee was and is a positive in my book.

Playing Sim Golf on the Vtrack

I play GSPro using the Vtrack.

All you have to do to get started is double click on the Vtrack Toolkit icon and that fires up the Vtrack software and I have it set to automatically open up GSPro as well.

It still downloads the latest stable GSPro versions when available automatically. There is also an “Official GSPro Connector” in the works as I type this, it is likely available by the time you are looking at this review.

So all I have to do is open up the software then load up the practice range or a course, put a ball in the hitting zone and I am ready to go.

Shots register and display lightning fast. I know I’ve mentioned that a few times in the review so far but it really is fast. All the data is shown lightning fast, quick immediate feedback.

I do not select any specific club or change to putter. Altho with some of the new features GSPro is working on, if you do select each club it can give you stats and data (look into GSPro Portal for more info).

Accuracy feels spot on to me from driver through wedges for sure. I compare from my 6 years or so of experience using the GC2 before this and it is very, very similar to me.

The putting feels slightly fast to me – at least in comparison to the speed of the turf in my simulator. I hit/putt from 10′ away from my screen. If I roll a ball that comes to a rest gently up against my screen, on GSPro 11 stimp, the putt rolls out closer to 13′. There is putting slider coming in a near future update that will allow you to scale back or up the speed to match closer to your physical environment.

The video replay will repeat over and over until you place a ball in the hitting area and the Vtrack picks it up. Once that happens the video goes away and the system is ready for your next shot. It’s an easy way to tell that the system is ready.

Be cautious moving your ball into place with your club if the system has already picked up on it. If you move the ball too rapidly or ‘tap’ it into place, the system can pick it up as a shot. It’s somewhat sensitive. Friends have learned that when playing a tour round to block the cameras view of the golf ball with the club head before moving the ball. If we are playing a tour round those mis-registered shots are quite painful since there are no mulligans.

Righty’s and lefty’s can now play without the need to move any launch monitor or any special setup.

Where To Buy

365 Golf Design – If you are in the USA like me, I recommend and purchased mine from Matt the owner at 365 Golf Design. He has excellent customer service, competitive pricing and will work with you to get you what you need. He also has the protective shield if you want to get that.

YourSwing.golf – Canadian friends I recommend Guy Belanger with YourSwing.ca. He also runs the Vtrack Facebook group, so your communication options are plenty.

I will add other vendors here when they have the Vtrack available for sale.

Final Thoughts About Vtrack

Higher quality hardware, faster cameras, build by a “Machine and Vision Learning AI Company” at lower price than it’s main competitor and also NO extra subscription fee to play GSPro. Lets. Go. Vtrack.

I’m extremely happy – so far. I have not experienced bad software updates, “fixes” that cause more issues or things of that nature that have plagued some of their overhead competitors.

Fast, accurate and awesome.