(vIndianz, May 25, 2010): Japan is offering its football fans a chance to view the 2022 World Cup matches on an ultra realistic live three-dimensional telecast, if it gets the rights to host the 2022 match. The 550-billion yen “Universal Fan Fest” is part of Japan’s proposal submitted to football’s world governing body FIFA.
Kozha Tashima, JFA general secretary and chief executive officer of the bid committee said that 360 million people at 400 selected stadiums in FIFA’s 208 member countries would view the matches. The matches would be shown on giant screens and the images would be captured from 360 degrees by 200 high-definition cameras during each match. These would be transmitted as 3D images.
This would give the viewers an illusion of watching the match in real. Microphones installed below the pitch where the actual game is taking place would record all sounds including the ball being kicked and also the referee’s whistle. It would create an ultra-realistic digital vision. This technology would be powered in part from the electricity generated by spectators cheering and stamping their feet and part from the solar panels on the stadium’s rooftop.
Jun Murai, Keio University professor who serves as a technology director at the committee, said this technology is like a science fiction movie. It would be like a dream. He also added that it was important to see how the technology would evolve in these 12 years and he believes this would come to reality by 2016. FIFA’s 24 executives will decide the hosts for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Australia, Russia, Britain and the United States are bidding for both 2018 and 2022 competing against co-hosting campaigns by Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal. The Japan’s 2022 bid offers unique plan to invite 6000 children from the 208 countries to watch the World Cup matches, participate in football clinics, and learn about environmental issues and world peace with trips to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The FIFA has rated Japan’s plan as unique and outstanding.
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