Can Japan deliver a holographic World Cup?

[BuryMeInEngland]

If it works, this could be amazing and groundbreaking. However, I don't think FIFA is advanced enough in their thinking to embrace it.

"Japan, which is vying with Australia, Qatar, South Korea and the United States for the 2022 tournament, will find out on December 2 whether its ambitious proposal paid off.

But any sense of victory will be tempered by the Herculean task the country now faces in trying to turn a package of ideas, which appear to be stolen wholesale from science fiction, into science fact.

At the heart of Japan's bid is a plan to broadcast entire games to stadiums on the other side of the world in what appears to be life-sized holograms.

Promotional videos shown on the 2022 bid website show ghostly players chasing the ball while crowds of fans look on -- reminiscent of the classic Princess Leia hologram scene in "Star Wars."

Japanese organizers say each game will be filmed by 200 high definition cameras, which will use "freeviewpoint" technology to allow fans to see the action unfold from a player's eye view -- the kind of images until now only seen in video games"

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/11/30/japan.world.cup.bid/

 

[Danners9]

they could run it at the same time as Qatar 2022 and see how the viewership compares. I'd rather watch this than have anything to do with the Qatar tournament.

 

[widmerpool]

It would be interesting to see Spurs versus a holographic AI team. Like when Kasparov played Deep Blue.

 

[Sum Monsterism]

I suggested this as the way football would end up being just a month or two ago over a family lunch.

I was laughed at.

Bastards.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Hmm, from what i understand, the only good "live" holograms we've seen so far have relied on the angled glass projection style and that suffers from the problem of only really being visible from one side (looks like a pretty steep angle, but still...). The pyramid ones are restricted in their movement hugely from what i can figure out.

I'd love to see the tech they intend to use in action, even just watching a 3d moving gif that doesn't flicker like mental, be visibly rotating or confined in some bizarre pyramid would impress me.

And that's not even taking into consideration how they'll film it - are all the players going to have dots on their kits for mapping? What sort of monster hardware will be required to crunch that sort of data? Can they provide a reliable and fast enough data stream nationally, let alone globally, to fulfill these promises of beaming it live?

I'm not convinced that the tech on all fronts isn't a bit too far behind, even with five years to work on it.

 

[eddiev14]

Has anything happened regarding this since this article was posted in 2010?

 

[Gbspurs]

Has anything happened regarding this since this article was posted in 2010?

Given that they lost the bid to Qatar I'm assuming not. Bit of a random thread really, I had to check the date it was uploaded as I thought it was bumped.

 

[eddiev14]

Given that they lost the bid to Qatar I'm assuming not. Bit of a random thread really, I had to check the date it was uploaded as I thought it was bumped.

Yeah. What I was thinking tbf