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The Matrix Meets The NFL
wirehead_rick writes "Imagine 'The Matrix' style special effects for the replay of sports action. Being able to see a 360-degree stop action view of that receiver's foot on the line in the end zone." USA Today covers some whiz-bang video technology being debuted in the Super Bowl.
They need to combine this "new" technology with that weird panoramic-style camera that they used in the movie "A League of Their Own". It would create a whole new spin on the instant replay, while being helpful to officials. Now if they would only adopt this for all NFL games, and for other sports as well...
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Before anyone posts anything attempting to be funny by having football players quoting dialogue from the Matrix, remember that every possible parody of the Matrix has already been done, and is no longer funny.
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Now we just need to give the players some guns like in the last boy scout. Then have the mics in their gear pick up a player saying 'Whoa.'
I can see it now, the cameras pan in, millions of pixels are processed, and the result shows the crowd reality, or does it?
As the crowd sees the instant replay of the player scoring the touchdown you can hear whispers in the crowd saying he is the chosen one.
So now our sports will look great, but probably suck. I wrote all about how much The Matrix annoyed me at geek-ware.co.uk
I wonder if the football players will be wearing expensive sunglasses.
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I wonder if this technology would let you choose where you wanted the camera pointed/located on the field? That would be truely cool.
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So now our sports will look great, but probably suck. I wrote all about how much The Matrix annoyed me at geek-ware.co.uk
I wonder if the football players will be wearing expensive sunglasses.
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If they could marry this technology with digital tv so you control the camera, imagine how much fun you could have watching ladies tennis. Come on panty boys, you're with me on this one aren't ya.
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Check this paragraph from the article:
Keeping a secret
EyeVision was developed under utmost secrecy after CBS Sports President Sean McManus gave the go-ahead for $2.5 million in research. In the end
CBS Sports got input from rocket scientists at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and equipment and cameras from Japan and the Internet.
That just blew my mind! Where is this place on the Internet that produces equipment and cameras? How do I convert it from bits to physical hardware?
Later,
how does that help blind referees?
They don't need Matrix technology! They just need some of that technology from Enemy of the State ....
... now that was coo --
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you know, where they take the single POV security camera from the lingerie shop and make a 3D model out of it
oh wait, it was also impossible (did it irk anyone else when they saw it?)
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At the Soccer World Cup in 1998, here in Germany they used a virtual soccer field, freezing all players in their current position and then allowing rotation and zoom in the virtual model, making it possible to determine, for example, an off-side position and see the game situation from a player's point of view, for example before a free kick. The system was pretty accurate, and apparently working automatically plus maybe some manual corrections of the players' postures. OK, that Matrix style thingy may look cooler, but I think this virtual field was much more flexible and practical... it should have used real textures only...
As long as they aren't superimposing a Pringles logo on the football or anything else when they're showing the replay, I'll be happy.
Oh, wait, I hope I didn't just give them an idea. Oh boy.
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So do we also get special features where we can 'follow the white rabbit'? ;-)
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This thing was created for Sport but imagine this would make a kick ass Security Camera System. Now I can see people stealing my stuff in 360 rotation. I also see this as a great system for thing like televised surgeies. I can see the doctor from all the angles. Great teaching tool.
pfft, I've had this for at least a half a year now. I've been known to spend lots of time creating my own 'bullet-time football' replays in NFL2k1, just to annoy my friends. :)
Okay, so for a smooth rotation, the object is at the center of the cameras, all having the same lense settings.
If not at the center, then you have to compensate for the error with matched zooms so that you don't have, as the viewer, the weird impression of a comet like elliptical motion (not even as they only cover 270 degrees).
Even if you compensate for the distance with a zoom, what about the fields of view? how do you morph your different frozen camera views into one smooth video sequence, when all your field of views are different?
My (wild) guess is that you'll see quite a lot of these instant replays at the center of the field...
Ubercool nontheless... I wonder how much processing power you need to render your animation... and how automated the whole thing really is. 33 cameras, say 3 second animation @ 60 frames/s, 800x600 that's 247Mb uncompressed @ 24bit/pixel and 32 different morphs to compute with say 5 images each... I wonder how many anchor points you use in such a morph. Anyway, sounds highly //isable to me, so 32 processors on a nifty board or a beowulf?
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Having said that, they've stopped using it as much as they used to when they first introduced it. Andy Gray has a nice(ish) replay/analysis tool - a LARGE touchscreem "TV", showing the play, with some clever(ish) s/w allowing him to eg highlight an individual player, track him, draw arrows, etc.
Every time I see him use it though, I want to shout to the manufacturers (FASTER PROCESSOR, or maybe MORE MEMORY), as there's a horrible 1 or 2 second delay between him doing something and the results showing up.
...I mean, it's just software, right? CBS doesn't deserve to profit off of this just for putting up the $2.5 million to actually develop the system. ;)
... geeks actually know what sport is?
"Plans for EyeVision include erasing players from the video who aren't critical to the play and putting a transparent plane on the goal line to show distinctly whether the ball penetrated the plane and crossed the goal line."
Ok, that's creepy.
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With that in mind, I believe this technique should no longer be called "bullet time". Instead, it should be called "khaki time".
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Fyping has pecome an apsolufe nighfmare.
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"You can catch flies till the cows come home, but wasps are a totally different kettle of fish."
Are interpolation frames being generated? It's hard to tell from the clips. Otherwise, it's just "stick a bunch of cameras on the field and rotate the views quickly." Neat, but hardly the Matrix.
"In the end CBS Sports got input from rocket scientists at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and equipment and cameras from Japan and the Internet."
Wow, I must've been under a rock. Why didn't someone post on slashdot when they declared the Internet it's own nation?
Well, Dr. Yacoub, why don't you just go and do some more of your genetic tampering so that the polar caps will freeze more and the penguins will have a better habitat?
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Anyone else check out that video?? A little jerky and I'm pretty sure I saw the ball actually change its position for a frame or two when the camera was mid-swing... Hopefully thats just due to the poor quality video...
The sunglasses I am not worried about. I just got a vision of the Giants in black vinyl hotpants - and it was not pretty. Root Down ~#
Cheerleaders!
Cool now I will have two reasons to watch the super bowl, the commercials, and the instant replay. This might be tough because I often would go get food, or goto the bathroom during the game in fear of missing a funny commercial.
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If you are familiar with either of the teams in the Super Bowl, then you know there won't be any "foot on the line" touchdowns. Hell, there won't event be a score. This will be a 4 overtime scoreless tie, eventually decided by a safety. Nice to see that this will be available, as it means that it will sooner or later make it into all games.
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Soccer Set from Orad brought this to European and other countries several years ago.
Kenny's Kourt, on TBS and TNT has been doing this since SPRING 1999 with basketball, right here on American television.
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Stupid sexy Flanders.
I read a book way back in elementary school (1980's) about somebody in the 21st century who created a computer system to completely simulate sporting events. You could pick and choose players from any era and pit them against one another. Since it's all just "pixels", with enough processing power, it wasn't possible to tell the illusion from the reality. How are away from this are we? Kind of like the matrix, except we're just plugged into our TV's instead of something in the back of our heads. How long before anything you see or hear on TV could just have easily come out of someone's computer as a live camera? We know that CBS has been doing this on a small scale already. Man, you could come up with some pretty good conspiracy theories really quickly with this ammo... I'm sure some /.er will!
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We had to sign on for the air-time last year at this time, and since everyone else was doing it, we didn't want to be left behind. I've had "rais a million dollars" on my Palm's To-Do list for most of a year- and you know how that goes.
Due to cash constraints, it will be only six seconds long.
It took us months to concept and complete the spot. The cost to produce it was nearly as expensive as the price of the air-time.
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Using this 270 Deg technology, and 3d Photo Software (like Photo 3d, Image 3d, and others) they could be building a database of 3 dimentional players. They mention the can remove a player from the scene, heck they could add a player from this 3d database just as easly. What happens when the broadcaster and the sports team are owned by the same company? Ever watched the Braves on TBS? If they can add/remove players, can they add/remove footbals? Baseballs? Sidlines? Foul Poles? "Ted says make that look like a home run, it wont change the game, but it will sure help ratings" "Ted says remove rocker from the lockerroom video, he's about to say something stupid again."
-Jason
I find it interesting that the engineers who designed the system referred to the Matrix technology as using still cameras. The technical (as opposed to artistic) breakthrough of those effects in The Matrix was that they used actual movie cameras, so action could continue during the rotation. The Gap ads (and others) preceding the Matrix used still cameras for that effect; that wasn't new.
An error I could overlook, but the fact that the creators of CBS's version themselves didn't know this basic fact tends to suggest they didn't bother to do their homework...
-spc
http://www.parabon.comEvidently Keanu Reeves heard about this and said, "Yet another shameless use of our ground-breaking technology. I'm sick of all these parodies."
Told that Trent "Lame Duck" Dilfer and Kerry "Lame Drunk" Collins would be the starting quarterbacks in Super Bowl XXXV, Reeves said, "Whooooa."
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Although I believe the different methods produce similar results, the NFL stuff is the work of Takeo Kanade, the former director of the CMU Robotics Institute. Check out the page here for information on the research which I assume led to this.
That "The Matrix" is now being used as an adjective. Guess that's when you really know the impact a movie has had on society.
It's gotta be invisible to the home viewer, and practically flawless in design, to work. The first down line they use now is a good example. Fox's ugly "shadow puck" for hockey, complete with electronic trails every time the puck was fired, is not.
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They already have this - its the XFL!!!
http://www.xfl.com
Where's the beef?
So...tell me, why do almost all athletes in professional European sports leagues have 99% of their bodies covered with sponsor logos?
Where's the beef?
Giants: 14, Ravens: 11. CBS is now ready to call the superbowl for the Ravens.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Doesn't the Matrix plus the Superbowl give you the XFL?
I'll tell you what really happens when The Matrix meets NFL, and it's a real piece of shit.
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"Touchdowns. Lots of touchdowns."
What really sucks about this is that now I'm tempted to actually watch the game. And it's not like it's some cool half-time stunt - this could happen at any time during the game. There goes my afternoon.
See, this right here makes me more than a little skeptical about how well this thing was engineered. If it was 2 years in the making anyway, it seems like the least they could do would be to hook it up a few days in advance and take some rotating retakes of, oh, the groundskeeper replacing sod or something.
Or at least take accurate measurements of the dimensions of the stadium and set up a demo in an airplane hangar someplace. While it would make for some of the coolest replays ever, I think their efforts towards secrecy and "adventure" are going to make for a barely-functional system that won't live up to its hype.
also, there was a line in there about how this would "prove conclusively" if certain passes were received and whatnot, but don't you really only need 1 really good angle for that?
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It makes me sad to be an American when something like this develops. Joe Sixpack doesn't care about this technology when it could be used to cover newsworthy events. Hey, let's take another look at that assassination attempt to see WHO was actually firing. NO WAY, Let's make sure that the reciever made his two steps in bounds before he went out!
It is depressing when I watch someone's eyes glaze over when a football game is on. People spend entire holidays sitting on their fat asses feeding their faces and watching the same moronic game over and over again all day.
Why wasn't this developed for use by a news agency? Was it a question of funding? If so, why then does the sports dept. get that amount of funding?
American football is a children's game being played all to often by overgrown babies.
-/rant
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Heck, there's already a transparent plane there. And on the line of scrimmage. And on every yard line. And in the bleachers, and in the skyboxes, and piercing through the Goodyear blimp, and threading through the cheerleaders, and passing straight through the centers of both the star quarterback and the couch potato sitting at home...
Oh, they meant a translucent plane. Well, that's different now.
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now, if you want an interesting answer, ask how my cat Joe Hill got his name.
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Actually, the Matrix used still cameras. Certain scenes used lots of images all taken at once (rotation in zero time), others used images at very small intervals (Neo dodging bullets). Both types used still image cameras with computer generated interpolation frame.
BTW, the Matrix pioneered the technique, the Gap ads just adopted it before the movie hit the theaters.
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It's actually Wing Commander style video...
The Wing Commander live action movie was the first full-feature film to use this type of special effect. Matrix was filmed much after Wing Commander. Surely geeks would give credit where credit is due, especially to something as geeky as a computer game.
Arguably, Matrix is a much better movie, but I still heartily enjoyed Wing Commander. Come on guys, give credit where credit is due, instead of pandering to the masses who don't watch anything past the top-ten list.
Wait, this is slashdot. We are the masses...
Bork!
For everyone concerned about the detail of trying to keep focus on one single point, I'm betting that one point that wasn't made perfectly clear is this: The cameras and the arms they sit on are probably /theoretically/ calibrated very very tightly to one another.
This would allow the movement, adjustment of focus to be automatic for every camera. To be as broad as possible, there'll probably be a guy with a joystick and Pan/Zoom controls that will automatically compensate for these factors in relation to their locations. He/she just needs to point the focus to the spot on the field he wants it to be. The computers will adjust for the rest.
This gives me a reason to watch something other than the entertainment that comes on during breaks in the game.
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The Matrix pioneered the use of panned, slow-motion shots, where the cameras take the shot one-after-another, in precisely synchronized order. That's why Keanu's coat was flapping as he rose up in the air, etc.
Either way, it's badass for football. If they can eventually do this with full-motion cameras, and software that can make little slo-mo pans on the fly, it will be a very impressive feat.
My second reason of course, would be to simply watch for this little knick-knack in use. Hmmmm, 3D huh?... "uhhh, Bob, get a couple of angle shots on those cheerleaders."
Of course, maybe some day pro athletes will stop being such pathetic pansies, bleeding and crying over this or that (when they are not raping or killing), and protesting their tiny 50 Million dollar salaries. Pathetic... well I guess I am being naive, but who knows... things change.
Actually, I think this should be implemented for Soccer in England. That way you could get the 3D shots of beetings and stampedes by the fans, now THAT would be entertaining!
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By the looks of the demo video they've got soccer lines on the field.
Yet another suggestion:
with nanotechnology allowing such inventions as "martpants" which keep themselves clean and dry, couldnt the pigskin of a Wilson football be coated with nanotech technology whih when combined with a simple wire along the endzone will tell you when the ball crosses this "transparant" (TRANSLUCENT! DAMNIT) plane?
ok, im just way too bored to be productive...
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From CMU's Internal BBoard
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Carnegie Mellon Professor's Unique New vision Technology Will be used to Present Instant Replays in Super Bowl XXXV
Football fans tuning into this year's Super Bowl will be treated to a unique new view of the action during instant replays. CBS Television will be presenting them using a new technology, co-developed by CBS and Carnegie Mellon University computer vision expert Takeo Kanade.
"Eye Vision", as CBS calls it, involves shooting multiple video images of a dynamic event, such as a football game, from multiple cameras placed at different angles. The video streams from these cameras are combined by computer and the resulting images reach viewers in a 270-degree format that will make them feel as if they are flying throughthe scenes they see.
USA Today notes in its Jan. 23 article that viewers and referees "will be able to see rotating . . . stop-action shots from simultaneous angles. The resulting pictures will demonstrate conclusively whether passes were caught and if the ballcarrier was down before the fumble,out-of-bounds or over the goal line."
The action at Super Bowl XXXV will be captured by more than 30 cameras, each poised some 80 feet above the field at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. Each camera, with computer-controlled zoom and focus capabilities, is mounted on a custom-built, robotic pan-tilt head, which can swing the camera in any direction at the command of a computer. These camera heads are controlled in concert so that cameras point, zoom and focus at the same time on the same spot on the field, where some action (touch down or fumble) is occurring.
The system operates in the following way: One of the camera heads is designated as the master camera. A human cameraman operates a movable pan-tilt tripod, attached to a flat liquid crystal display (LCD) tv screen on which the video from the master camera is constantly displayed. The pan-tilt tripod is equipped with sensors to constantly measure its angle. The master camera head moves by mimicking the motion of the tripod as the cameraman moves it to capture a moving object on the field on his LCD TV screen.
In the meantime, information collected from the master camera's pan-tilt angles, zoom and focus is fed to a computer, which quickly computes the appropriate control signal for each of the remaining cameras. This causes all of them to converge on the same target and capture its image from a variety of angles.
Live action on the football field is continuously captured up to 30 times per second by the video cameras. The video of each camera is synchronized and time stamped so that all the views at the most critical and interesting moments can be played back in sequence, as if a viewer had flown around the action.
Kanade will explain his technology in an interview from Tampa, which will air during the Super Bowl Pre-Game Show. He notes that the "Eye Vision" demonstration that will appear on Super Bowl Sunday is only a small part of this new technology, which he calls "Virtualized Reality" opposed to virtual. reality, and is the product of more than six years of research.
For Virtualized Reality to achieve its full impact, the set of captured, multiple video images must be processed beyond the play back. The detailed geometrical information about a scene--the shapes of targets and background--is extracted by computer, which enables a person to choose how to view a scene, even from a perspective that was actually not shot by any camera.
To bring this concept to life, Kanade and his students built a "3D room" equipped with more than 50 video cameras and experimented by filming people involved in a variety of sports activities. He also spun off a company named Zaxel Systems, Inc., for commercialization of the technology. Much of this work can be viewed at the Virtualized Reality Web site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/project/Virt
In contrast to virtual reality, in which synthetic environments are created, Virtualized Reality, and to a lesser extent, Eye Vision, are based on events taking place in the real world, which are captured and processed by computer manipulation. "Because our models are derived from real images," Kanade says, "the models look much more real than typical virtual worlds."
Kanade says the output from these multiple cameras shooting a scene together from many angles actually can create totally new views that were not captured by any camera. As this technology develops, he believes it will create a completely new way to view sports and entertainment events. People will be able to customize the perspective from which they watch--e.g. from that of a particular player or the ball.
Kanade is the director of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. He has been a leader in the development of video-based vision systems used in the university's autonomous vehicles and exploration robots. His team has developed a vision-based autonomous helicopter,which ultimately may be able to aid in search and rescue operations, fire fighting and inspection tasks. He is also a pioneer in medical robotics and computer-assisted surgery, working with surgeons and medical professionals to develop smart tools capable of performing medical procedures better than a physician or machine could do alone.
Kanade earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan. He has been on the Carnegie Mellon faculty since 1980 and director of the Robotics Institute since 1991. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Most recently he received a $100,000 award from the NEC Foundation for C&C Promotion for "fundamental and broad contributions to the development of multimedia through the advancement of robotics and computer vision."
"A series of sophisticated still cameras was placed along the mapped path, each of which would shoot a single still photo. Then the photos were scanned into the computer, which created a strip of still images, similar to animation cels. The computer generated "in-between" drawings of the images much as animators draw frames to move their characters smoothly from one pose to another and the completed series of images could be passed before the viewers' eyes as quickly or slowly as the filmmakers wanted without losing clarity."
Because unlike the Gap commercials The Matrix doesn't have 'stop-action' shots. Time is slowed down instead. This is a slightly tougher feat which I am yet to see reproduced.
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CMU experts helping CBS's 30 robotic cameras to work as one
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I had a feeling you were going to say that.
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...is wire it into the refs. Maybe they can do some accurate calls. I can hear them now...Naw I didn't see it, all I got was static.
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I thought I saw those rotating snapshot in GAP commercials before Matrix was released.
Some guy with yellow shirt or sth jumped and froze in mid air and the shot rotated 180 degrees, with hip music playing in background.
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The goal line plane will actually be kinda cool, sort like the 1st down line they have now, but a big wall. They'll probably soon add sound effects of crashing glass sounds when they break through...
And removing other players sounds neat, but I would think that everyone out there is effecting some part of the play. Although, it could be super-sweet for training videos.
Jason
Here is a link to more info on the technical details
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~virtualized-reality/
I wonder if I could buy a bunch of Kensington webcams(which are selling on clearence at Best Buy), a big USB hub, and do my own bullet time stuff at home. Anyone? Anyone?
It actually is an advancement over the tech used in the Matrix. It is pretty cool, too - too bad I am not a huge football fan by any means.
Essentially, in the Matrix still cameras were used, all fired in sequence, aranged "around" the point of action. This "in action" panning strip was then enhanced/scrubbed with a computer to make it cleaner, and more presentable.
What is being done in the Superbowl is similar - but replace each still camera with a video camera, and feed the frames in a computer. Now, as the action is going on at the "action point", you have 33 streams, all from different angles, running and capturing frames. Now, think of these strips of frames - if you played all 33 in sync (so that frame 1 of strip A is played at the same time as frame 1 of strip B), and switched "along" the sequence of the 33 cameras, you could get full video along those points, at any angle. Or, you could show various angles (as seen from camera 27). Pan from 1 to 33, while moving the video forward, or reverse, and you have full motion panning, through time, along an arc.
Then, the CBS engineers go one step further - they have mounted all of these video cameras on robotic pan/tilt/zoom platforms - very precise platforms - all working in concert to all point at the same 3D coordinate in the stadium. I would imagine the software to be quite complex to manage all of that, to manage the calculations, the control, the capture, playback, review, etc. The system to store the video frame streams would have to be pretty huge as well, to do it all in real time, at TV quality, for over 30 streams. I mean, for one stream at 16 bit quality - 30 fps - say 640x480 video - for one second of video that would be 17 MB! Over 30 streams would be half a gig - every second! I would imagine a parallel video RAID-like system for this, to get a few seconds of video. Entirely doable, very custom, I would imagine.
I am sure these cameras can also be used in "teams" as well, or individually. I think (I could be wrong here) that the motion of the streams would cancel out the need to do real-time interpolation of the images as was done for the Matrix (which was done because the raw strip of images was very jumpy). I might be wrong about that, though (depending on how far apart the cameras are spaced would determine the jumpiness as well)...
All I can say, if what I am thinking is correct - is wow!
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Nice how they just gloss over this detail at the very end. In mere seconds, they can remove a person from the video. This has much more serious implications, if you think about it. What else can they do to a live or seconds-delayed video feed that we won't know about?
I guess the only way to really be sure you're seeing what actually happened is to be there. That, IMNSHO, is really the most amazing part of that article
see a 360-degree stop action view of that receiver's foot on the line in the end zone.
I dont care, unless said reciever is Carrie-Anne Moss
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The Football World Cup in France 98 (soccer for our American breven) had this technology - some off-side rulings where analysed with this technology, but after the game. What would really be cool is if the processing power existed to do this in real time, with a 3D TV standand in process which allows the viewer to rotate the camera angle anywhere they want.
Fans of EA Sports titles have enjoyed this replay facility for over 4 years now.
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I'm 6'1" and weigh about #220. I'm not fat by any stretch of the imagination. I've been a student of Go Ju Do, Kenpo, Shotokan, Jui Jitsu and Aikido. You couldn't kick my ass if I were asleep.
Get out of your dream world, moron and realize that there are somethings that are better to get excited about than whacking off at your computer while viewing newsgroup porn, because I know you don't get no chicks with an attitude like that.
So, you get excited by watching all of those big burly men in tight shiny pants huh? I do alright in the "chicks" department. I'm no Cassanova, but I get my fair share of action.
At least football promotes all of the basic fundamentals of humanity. Violence, intelligence, strategy, teamwork, and winner takes all.
Intelligence? Dream on! Just listen to the average football player give an interview. Because they were good at running while holding a ball, or at stopping people who run while holding a ball, they got an easy time in school. They never had to learn anything because the were good at playing a game. For grown men to do irreparable damage to their bodies for a GAME is not intelligent.
I bet you got your ass beat every day you went to school because you were a whiny bitchy little wimp that couldn't hack it.
I gave more ass kickings that I got. Sometimes to dimwitted jocks.
Are you one of those Al Bundy types, who sits on the sofa all day, with one hand down his pants and the other rubbing on his fat belly, while you watch the game, talking about how you "used to play a little high school ball."?
People like you make me embarrassed to be an American.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
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Japan and the Internet. Wow. It must be cool, then.-b
If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
Because they need some other way of making money than being "franchises" that are practically tax exempt and tend to move city at the drop of a hat if someone offers more cash?
Are there any previews of this we can download to get an idea of how it'll look?
I was unfamiliar with that "basic fact" as well. I also didn't realize that the Gap ads were filmed before the Matrix. I also didn't know that movie cameras were needed to continue action during rotation. And here I just thought they changed the timing so they didn't fire all at once! Wow, I feel dumb beneath your scathing review of CBS.
I stand corrected. Apparently the information source I'd seen was incorrect -- and I *didn't* do my homework to confirm.
-spc
I played football in highschool, but it was just a game. It's not an amalgamation of real life events and values. It's a GAME. I was also on my school's chess team. I was also on the track team.
Martial arts is not a "sport" in the traditional sense of the term.
I never got beaten up by a football player. So you can hang your pseudo psychoanalysis up, you'll never make a living at it.
The strategy of the game? Offense. Move the ball that way. Defense. Keep them from moving the ball this way. It's simple. That's why so many simpletons are enthralled by it.
Then again, you are just a troll. That's why you're anonymous.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
I have read all these comments and replies and what is YOUR PROBLEM LK?
My problem is my annoyance with the football zombies who care about nothing but watching "the game".
Are you one of those wounded black people who think that because they are a prosperous geek now, that they can knock everything that appears to go against being a geek?
My race is no more of an issue with this than the fact that I'm right handed.
Something for black people everywhere to look down upon.
I'm a republican too. I am looked down upon by dimwits of every color.
It's people like you that perpetuate the poor human condition of our world.
Yeah, football is the answer to all of the world's problems huh?
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
The problem is, how do you go about having a limited number of cameras to do the same effect as in the matrix.
You can't flick through your images, or if you do, I'd think you'd get a pretty bad result.
Don't worry, if the transition between images isn't done using some morphing technique, it will be eventually, as it's bound to reduce the number of camera views needed.
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"Hasta la victoria siempre!" El Comandante
Don't be expecting The Matrix here--there is no interpolation, so the turning is very jerky--but I think this shows promise.
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Patrick Doyle
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....