Slashdot Mirror
NFL's First Broadcast In 3-D, Still Has Work To Do
darkwing_bmf writes "The NFL broadcast a live game to theaters in 3-D for the first time on Thursday night. The technology demonstration was mostly successful but they still have some issues to work out. 'Some scenes clearly captured the benefits of 3-D broadcasts, however, such as an interception by Chargers linebacker Stephen Cooper as players crisscrossed the field, and a long touchdown catch by San Diego's Vincent Jackson with the arc of the ball caught on camera all the way. Viewers were encouraged to text in their reaction to the viewing. One of the first comments, according to the commentators: "More cheerleaders."'"
Not surprising. There are basically three classes of people who watch pro football.
First, there are pre-pubescent kids, who think it's just a game because that's what daddy told 'em (while mommy rolls her eyes.)
The second (and the majority, no doubt) consists of those adults who truly enjoy watching a bunch of well-built guys run around in really tight, shiny outfits, regularly spanking each other's butts in an "encouraging" manner and hugging each other, playing with balls, all the while hoping for a deep, squirming pile of these guys to develop (baseball is very similar, only there's a fair bit of spitting and the piles are generally limited to twosies);
The third consists of those who want to watch beautiful cheerleaders perform routines that emphasize their feminine, athletic and desirable traits, while wearing the skimpiest possible outfits. This group is generally under-represented because (a) with televised games, the cameras spend far too little time on the cheerleaders, and (b), when you're there in person, there are comparably few seats with a decent view of the cheerleaders, barring the use of a set of good stabilized binoculars, which tends to be tiring and expensive.
Personally, I'm in the last group; the day I watch part of a pro football game with any serious interest at all on the tube is the day they devote an HD channel entirely to the cheerleaders. 3D would definitely be an incentive, as would more daring uniforms. As for the boys in tight outfits... not really interesting, thanks. But for those of you who swing that way, by all means, please enjoy. You can't live your whole life in the closet, after all, nor should you have to.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Comment removed based on user account deletion
This should be NHL in theater in 3D, football is teh suck.
Can somebody explain what polarization is, and how some materials can block certain "orientations" of polarization?
There are two types of people in the world, those who are comfortable with their sexuality, whatever it may be, and those who feel the need to denigrate others because they're afraid of their own feelings. Can you guess which group your post puts you in?
This.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
Now all we need are cameras in the players' helmets and then we can all feel like we're really part of the game. Which might not be such a good thing when you see a 300-lb lineman with a full head of steam barreling towards "you". Might make for sloppy beer management...
Three kinds of people watch football:
1) Dumb kids
2) Closet homosexuals
3) Leering perverts
I'm not dumb and I'm not a homosexual, so I'm a leering perv.
See how easy it was to summarize your wordy post?
Too bad this technology wasn't working in time to catch Ryan Clark's hit on Wes Walker last week.
We could have visualized pain in three dimensions.
Forget the NFL! With 3-D broadcasting, p0rn will never be the same! =)
VARIETY, Lack Of - Steven Soderbergh's new musical version of Cleopatra - in 3-D! - proves an incredible box-office same-old same-old. Starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as the fishnet-clad vaudeville jazz empress and Hugh Jackman as the mutant self-healing Roman general - in 3-D! - the film carries the Ocean's Eleven franchise somewhere beyond its ultimate extent.
"I've always wanted to do a musical," Soderbergh said. "All the ones that were coming along just weren't for me. This one, however, involved dumptrucks full of money backed up to my house."
Soderbergh pooh-poohed suggestions that the film would be some sort of low-rent exploitation quickie that would insult the intelligence of any creature smarter than a flatworm. "I can assure you this will be the most artistically satisfying creation in my entire career as a director," he said, lighting a cigar off a hundred-dollar bill before laying back on a great big bed made of money.
"DUMPTRUCKS!" Soderbergh emphasised. "FULL OF MONEY! BACKED UP TO MY HOUSE!"
http://rocknerd.co.uk
"On Thursday, some systems at a Salt Lake City location had to be rebooted to restart the satellite feed and some camera crews performed pans that ended up leaving the viewers a bit cross-eyed, Modell said."
Somehow along the way I made a bad choice in life and now must live with 0 Karma.
"still has work to do"
They have a LONG way to go... first step is finding better teams than the Chargers and the Raiders.
Oh yeah, and I second the motion for more cheerleaders... in motion!
More music, fewer hits
For better coverage of the snap, how about live footage from the center's cup-cam?
But seriously, too many cameras on the field, would mean that too many folks would see too much nastiness.
It might lead to too many post-games disputes . . . or worse, to, um, serious altercations between supposing fans after a very nasty hit.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Explain what the refocus/dissolve stuff and pulling off the polarized lenses was. Tech explanation please.
Support my political activism on Patreon.
My answer when guys at school asked why I don't play rugby.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Almost every article on the web (which is a copy-paste press release) references 2 problems, a temporary outage, and "an ill advised zoom." Does anyone know what the ill-advised zoom was?
Mass 3D movies and TV have been promised since the 50's. It didn't catch on then (other than novelty shows) and probably never will, at least as long as glasses are involved. Polarized spectacles are not a significant improvement over red/blue ones.
The glasses make people feel dorky and many find them uncomfortable. 3D TV would have to have a large percent of the population prefer it before the infrastructure is worth while. Some kind of holographic projection would probably be needed to get it to take off.
Besides, one can get almost the same sense of depth sensation by merely panning the camera left to right (or versa) slowly while pointing at the main subjects. The brain uses the parallax info in much the same way that two-eye parallax works. It's a cheaper form of 3D. See http://www.kokogiak.com/mars/mws.asp?n=4
Table-ized A.I.
IIRC, the XFL put their multitude of cameras on a 7-second delay to deal with nastiness that came up, including foul language, etc., but they were still a spectacular failure
http://instagram.com/thephotographer
I actually think they'll eventually get to a point where you have enough cameras on the field that you can take anything that happened during the game and get a composite view of it from any angle you could possibly want.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
wow. NFL casting DDD Broads...
Cameras at each corner, and on the edges.
Camera on each of the players.
That should allow for at least over 90% of everything in the game field.
The rest could probably be filled in using pattern matching algorithms and fill-in to achieve 100%.
Oh we can dream, we can dream. Not only that, but 3D porn too.
Penis cam FTW
I unerstand that it may be a bit difficult to get the "3D effect" on a 2D screen but... Does anyone have a link to view a clip from the 3D game?
Less-geeky computer repair alternative for Lansing, MI
Surely won't be the same.
My eyes look in slightly different directions, so I've never had depth perception. Can't catch a ball, can't do melee combat effectively. I'm told I have a disadvantage only from about six feet away on in, but that's probably far enough out that a 3D TV would be useless at best, and probably an annoyance from seeing double.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
I don't see how these categories are exclusive, for damn sure a lot of the people I know would class the entire football-watching population of my house in at least categories #1 and #3, and I'm pretty sure a lot of the trash talk implies that most of us are also in category #2.
So, either someone is spreading vicious slander, or this whole categorizing plan is bullshit.
"We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't believe in tolerance and free speech." - David Brin
Pop one lens out of a pair of old sunglasses and watch TV with them. The dark eye gets the image to your brain a millisecond later than the clear lens, giving you a stereo pair. Occasionally when the picture is right (camera moving horizontally) there will be a 3D effect. You can get same effect by squinting one eye, squint the eye where the motion is coming from. Camera moving right to left, squint the right eye. Works in movie theaters too.
does anyone know the kind of 3d they used? i know there's red-blue.... but did they use the new, fancy polarized ones?
Those of us who think they know everything annoy those of us who do.
Double-D's might make us seasick.
Only if they're yours.
Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
Personally, I've never understood the hate-on some people have for people like myself who simply don't like watching sports. Its amazing how much disgust registers in their face to a simple, "Sorry, I don't follow sports." You'd think I kicked their dog or something.
You don't follow "dog kicking" either?!
Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
Thats interesting. I wonder how the glasses distinguish between the two?
They take a class in circular logic.
Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
"Now all we need are cameras in the players' helmets and then we can all feel like we're really part of the game"
We already have 3D sports. It's called multiplayer in most games. Throw in real-time motion capture and you've just saved yourself several million in not building a stadium.
Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
but they'll poke BOTH your eyes out!
Mod this poor AC up...
MOD THIS POST UP!!! What an amazing summary of American Football we have here! He's no troll!
Ehud
Football sucks ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS why aren't you playing video games, you fucking proto-cretins? Ohh, your authority figures made you into sackless approval-slaves? Carry on then, pathetic creature.