Sure, 3DTVs and the technology behind them are cool but there is still a whole world of untapped technology that the general consumer has yet to see in the real world outside of movies like Star Wars. And who better to tap into this new technology than Japan one of the foremost centers of technological development in the world?
3DTVs have only just been made publicly available (at a pretty hefty premium, of course) and already Japan is looking towards the future. If their predictions pan out, the world should be seeing 3D holographic broadcasts for the 2022 World Cup. Seeing as that is 12 years away, the task seems doable at first glance.
Japanese technologists hope to accomplish this seemingly impossible feat by recording the action with a full 200 3D HD cameras with microphones embedded under the playing field for audio capture. If this works as they hope, they should be able to broadcast the 2022 World Cup in all of its 3D holographic goodness, just as I had mentioned above. What’s even more amazing is they plan to power all of this technology with the cheers and foot-stomping of the crowd, talk about an energy efficient application.
Now, this all sounds great and definitely seems possible by 2022 but how exactly do the Japanese plan to get these broadcasts into the homes of those who would normally be watching the World Cup on regular television? If they don’t find some hardware manufacturers that can produce some sort of display that can render this content, the technology will be useless. Not to mention the fact that said display technology would have to be at least somewhat affordable to make any sort of market penetration at all.
What do you guys think about all of this? Would watching sports games in holographic 3D be that much of an upgrade from watching them in say, normal 3D? Japan seems pretty confident that this new form of broadcast will allow for an experience much closer to wathing the thing in person than watching it on television. Let’s just hope all of these ideas actually manage to get off of the drawing board and into production.
3DTVs have only just been made publicly available (at a pretty hefty premium, of course) and already Japan is looking towards the future. If their predictions pan out, the world should be seeing 3D holographic broadcasts for the 2022 World Cup. Seeing as that is 12 years away, the task seems doable at first glance.
Japanese technologists hope to accomplish this seemingly impossible feat by recording the action with a full 200 3D HD cameras with microphones embedded under the playing field for audio capture. If this works as they hope, they should be able to broadcast the 2022 World Cup in all of its 3D holographic goodness, just as I had mentioned above. What’s even more amazing is they plan to power all of this technology with the cheers and foot-stomping of the crowd, talk about an energy efficient application.
Now, this all sounds great and definitely seems possible by 2022 but how exactly do the Japanese plan to get these broadcasts into the homes of those who would normally be watching the World Cup on regular television? If they don’t find some hardware manufacturers that can produce some sort of display that can render this content, the technology will be useless. Not to mention the fact that said display technology would have to be at least somewhat affordable to make any sort of market penetration at all.
What do you guys think about all of this? Would watching sports games in holographic 3D be that much of an upgrade from watching them in say, normal 3D? Japan seems pretty confident that this new form of broadcast will allow for an experience much closer to wathing the thing in person than watching it on television. Let’s just hope all of these ideas actually manage to get off of the drawing board and into production.
