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There is considered the problem of approximation of a continuous function on the unit sphere \(S^{r-1}\subseteq R^r\) by the means of spherical polynomial from the space \(P_n\) of all spherical polynomials of degree \(\leqslant n \). Recently it was shown by the authors that the hyperinterpolation approximation \(L_nf\) (\(L_n\) is a linear projection gained by approximating the Fourier coefficients in the exact \(L_2\) orthogonal projection by a positive-weight quadrature rule that integrates exactly all polynomials of degree \(\leqslant 2n\)) has the exact order \(\|L_n \|\asymp n^{\frac 1 2}\) provided the underlying quadrature rule satisfies an additional quadrature regularity assumption. It was also noticed that this rate of growth is the same as that of \(\|P_n \|\), where \(P_n\) is the \( L_2 \) orthogonal projection operator, and is optimal among all linear projections on \(P_n\) for \(r=3\). For \(r\geq\) an upper bound on \(\|L_n \|\) of non-optimal asymptotic order \(O(n^{\frac {(r-1)} 2})\) also holds, without any special assumption on the quadrature rule. This paper surveys these recent theoretical result at first, and, secondly, presents numerical results, both on the growth of the uniform norm of the hyperinterpolation operator up to degree 200, and on the uniform error in the approximation for a set of test functions. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0931.00036].