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Manchester City Begin Building World's First Football Stadium Inside the Metaverse (inews.co.uk) 51

Posted by msmash from the how-about-that dept.
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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  • I had a football stadium inside the the metaverse (Score:5, Interesting)

    by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @11:01AM (#62291747)
    On my commodore 64. Pretty sure VIC 20 users beat me to it.

    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.

    • 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.

      • BBS. Ok, I didn't have it myself, but I coveted it. And there were plenty of football (American and European) games on BBSes. Yes, you can play football in text. Yes, I wanted to, but at 99 cents/minute for AOL that wasn't happening, and I didn't know what a local BBS was :P. Young and Dumb.

        • 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.

    • 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.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by zlives ( 2009072 )

      waiting for the first meta brothel. porn is the only way for success

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  • 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

    • Instead of projecting the actual match, they could have avatars of the players mimic the match exactly. I'm not sure if the tech is already good enough for that, but we are pretty close.

      • 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.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by DarkOx ( 621550 )

      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

      • I always thought the best part of watching sports on TV is that you could easily switch them off.

      • 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

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by DarkOx ( 621550 )

          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

    • And it will only cost 7 bitcoin for a virtual beer.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Megane ( 129182 )
      Yes, let's use this high-tech VR shit to bring people the wonderful experience of being in the cheap seats with a bad view! Now all they need to do is figure out how to charge people for cold food and warm drinks!

  • and eat hotdogs in VR goggles without leaving a mess of spilled drinks and crumbs all over the couch?

    • 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.

    • and eat hotdogs in VR goggles without leaving a mess of spilled drinks and crumbs all over the couch?

      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)

    by Thelasko ( 1196535 ) on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @11:31AM (#62291841) Journal
    What happened to all of that virtual property in Second Life? [wikipedia.org] Wasn't there a similar boom in 2006? [computerworld.com]
    • Another question why the silence from Second life? one would think they would be trying to ride the lol wav that metaverse is creating even through second life been at it since 2006. And yes everything that being done now that seem to be new is not new at all sept the stadium creations ?? are their any? i don't know..So what IS Second life doing through all this?

  • This submission is obviously a phishing attack looking for stupid.

  • 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.

    • Can you elaborate? I have never actually watched sports and cannot imagine enjoying doing so in any format. Playing them seems like fun, but watching them is, irrational.

      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?

  • How much Suckerberg had to pay the team to get this?

  • Metaverses will be like cryptocurrencies. There won't be just one of them. And it won't be clear for at least a decade or two which few will dominate in terms of popularity and usefulness.

    Bear that in mind when staking a "land claim" (with NFT-certified intellectual property rights or whatever) in a metaverse.
    • I think it remains to be seen whether there will be one or many. Facebook obviously wants to create one they control, where Apple and google can't arbitrarily slash Facebook's profits just be tweaking some privacy settings. And MMO's are each separate worlds. But then, CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL wanted to be independent, too, but in the end lost out to the universal Internet.
    • Why do people write about "the metaverse" like it's some new cutting-edge technology? Second Life has had an extensive metaverse for over 18 years with plenty of virtual sports arenas [secondlife.com] - and I bet you can find replicas of landmark RL stadiums there, too.
  • With real dollars, or just metadollars?

  • 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.

  • I don't follow soccer, or football for that matter. I follow music. In my world, when you can't make it to a show, there's couch tour! Watching it from home on the stream, where you can banter with other folks who couldn't make it while you dance in your living rooms. This article has me thinking on that and on the future. What a future it'd be if the couch tour were brought to VR? What if you could enjoy the concert virtually from home, while dancing with everyone else who is doing the same? Ain't that the

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