Manchester City Begin Building World's First Football Stadium Inside the Metaverse (inews.co.uk) 51
Manchester City have begun building the world's first football stadium inside the metaverse with the help of virtual reality experts at Sony. From a report: Using image analysis and skeletal-tracking technologies created by Hawk-Eye, a subsidiary of the tech and entertainment giant, the club's stadium will become the central hub of City in a virtual reality world. Club officials working on the project envisage a time when City can fill a virtual Eithad Stadium several times over, allowing supporters who may never go to Manchester to watch live games from the comfort of their own homes anywhere in the world. The Premier League's digital pioneers have signed a three-year deal with Sony and, though work is still in its infancy, teams of the company's experts have already visited the Etihad to map it digitally and recreate it in virtual reality.
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The IQ 83 nimrods who watch football will just love it.
This is about soccer, not NFL. Manchester (my hometown!) is noted for its rowdy fans, who on their way to away games are notorious for ripping up entire airline cabins. VIrtualizing the games may be an effective way of containing them.
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It's like the people who attend "away" games for regional teams, sit in the opposing stands with an airhorn, and do their best to make sure everyone knows they are there.
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> VIrtualizing the games may be an effective way of containing them.
Interesting. I wonder if governments will take a similar approach to protests. In the future protesting will be made illegal because it is disruptive. However, feel free to stage a hunger strike online and die alone in your living room.
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The IQ 83 nimrods who watch football will just love it.
That would actually be a great success for Meta, to paraphrase "nobody ever went bankrupt by underestimating the intelligence of the average Facebooker". The thing is that a few of them will love it for ten minutes. Then it will be too much effort and they'll go back to watching football on YouTube. It's just like fashion brands were joining second life in 2006 [cnet.com]. Sure, they'll have some excitement for a few months as long as it doesn't have to make any money. Come next year, the question will be "is this add
nimrods (Score:2)
Didnt the RAF replace the Nimrods with Boeing P 8 Poseidon s ?
I had a football stadium inside the the metaverse (Score:5, Interesting)
The metaverse thing is just a transparent attempt to rebrand social media because thanks to all the politics that invaded it it's become a cesspool and it's gotten a overall bad brand associated with it. Social media is something you tolerate to keep in touch with friends and family but it's not something anyone enjoys anymore. They're trying to rebrand it to distance themselves from the miserable experience they created when they relied so heavily on doom scrolling for quick ad revenue.
It's too late and that genie is out of its bottle. Everyone hates Facebook and social media in general now and calling it The metaverse isn't going to change that.
On the other hand I don't think anyone's canceling their accounts so I don't think it matters.
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It's not a metaverse if all it has in it is a football game that doesn't even have any social features.
I agree that metaverse is a shallow rebranding effort but that doesn't make everything virtual a metaverse. It has to be in some kind of visually immersive VR at minimum.
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I did play some BBS games like tradewars, legend of red dragon, and one or two others I can't think of ATM. Santa Cruz had a healthy BBS scene, but I dropped out of it when I got on the internet in 1991 or so. I also dabbled in UUCP.
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The metaverse thing is just a transparent attempt to rebrand social media because thanks to all the politics that invaded it it's become a cesspool and it's gotten a overall bad brand associated with it. Social media is something you tolerate to keep in touch with friends and family but it's not something anyone enjoys anymore. They're trying to rebrand it to distance themselves from the miserable experience they created when they relied so heavily on doom scrolling for quick ad revenue.
I just had a thought. This might be a way to make for some interesting games for some people. Imagine making all players abilities equal. Then making different teams with different inclusiveness aspects. Imagine if you will, a body positive team taking on the top professional mens team as equal. Might be weirdly enjoyable.
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waiting for the first meta brothel. porn is the only way for success
You mean the Sims? (Score:2)
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dangit and i thought i was a tech innovator by my suggestion.
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Playing without legs or feet is doable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Can kinda see this working (Score:2)
If instead of watching the game from the typical camera angles on TV if in VR they place you in a virtual stadium, with virtual seats and they perspective match the game in the VR environment so it feels like you are in a seat watching the game that would be kindof appealing. Ironically I imagine it would probably work best exclusively from the "cheap seats" where the angles are already close to existing TV angles. Would probably be more difficult to recreate being close to the sidelines without adding d
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Save it for the semantics dome...
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A "seat"? This is Association Football, not American Football. The stands are called "stands" for a reason.
People used to stand, but:
Since 1994, first- and second-tier grounds in England and Wales have been required to be all-seated by law.
There's a trial of standing in the "stands" going on: BBC article [bbc.com]
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As mentioned elsewhere in this thread and as reported on recently in the news, VR tech does not currently track legs or feet properly -- avatars are cut off below the waist. That'd make some odd gameplay -- torsos hovering over the field while the ball bounces around with no apparent cause.
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Ah yes all the reality of not actually being there without the benefit of having a good vantage point to see the action from...
The BEST part of watching sports on television is the cameras are well positioned so you can see all the actions and there are multiple cameras that follow the action. You also don't suddenly lose your view of 30% of the field because the guy in the seat of ahead of you decides to stand up.
I will grant there is something to actually being at the game for-real-z-ys and hearing all t
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Oh yeah for sure, I am certainly not claiming this implementation will hit the mark, it prbably will be a cheap gimmick cash grab but I can see the potential for a VR "stadium" for viewing live sports can bring a bit of the advantages of both mediums.
On the one hand in VR you could still have access to all those extra camera angles via pop up displays. The interactive components means you can have a choice of the available camera angles currently while still having a primary, on perspective view from your
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Well there is VR and there is the 'metaverse' and the problem with the metaverse VS VR or the advantage depending on your prespective is this creates yet another artificial scarcity.
There are certainly better seats than others to watch a game from.. I don't really follow football so I all speak in terms of basketball. Everyone would like either floor seats or some might prefer box seats for various reasons. Not everyone can have them of course because physical space does not allow so seats are priced accor
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How does one drink beer (Score:1)
and eat hotdogs in VR goggles without leaving a mess of spilled drinks and crumbs all over the couch?
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You don't. It's like one of those 4-D shows in your own home. The smell of stale bun crumbs and the floor sticky with soda are a big part of the stadium ambiance. You can even dump some beer on yourself if you want to feel completely like you're at the match. Although for the best immersive experience, I do recommend an uncomfortable chair rather than a couch.
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The VR goggles don't change your other senses.
Hell, I can drink beer and eat hot dogs with my eyes closed...especially drinking beer.
I don't see that having goggle on will prevent either activity.
If worse comes to worst....just use your hand to lift your goggles up a bit to see the real world needs for a bit and a glug.
This Reminds Me... (Score:4, Insightful)
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probably getting ready for a buy out from MEHta
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Do not comment on this! (Score:2)
This submission is obviously a phishing attack looking for stupid.
Headsets of today suck (Score:2)
The visual fidelity and resolution isnâ(TM)t good enough to watch sports in it. Maybe in a decade? I hope they are using high resolution textures and unreal engine 5.
Re: Headsets of today suck (Score:2)
I know my dad used to watch sports on staticky black and white TVs and he seemed ok with it at the time. I imagine that watching on high resolution VR goggles would be far better than that. Is this kinda like movies, how you can take a terrible script and bad actors and make the movie kinda tolerable with great CG?
I just wonder (Score:2)
How much Suckerberg had to pay the team to get this?
Correction: In A metaverse (Score:2)
Bear that in mind when staking a "land claim" (with NFT-certified intellectual property rights or whatever) in a metaverse.
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How are they paying for it? (Score:2)
There is no Metaverse (Score:2)
This is like pointing at a wooden wagon wheel that has no axle and saying "look, I have an electric truck".
It's not.
It won't be until at least 2040.
By which point it won't matter as the polar caps melt.
Right on! (Score:1)