Posted on 12/01/2010 11:49:23 AM PST by LibWhacker
(CNN) -- Soccer and technology don't normally mix; FIFA, the international football body, has long dragged its studded heels over efforts to introduce microchip sensors into match refereeing.
So when Japan based its entire World Cup 2022 bid on a dazzling display of computer wizardry that doesn't yet exist, it was taking a gamble.
Japan, which is vying with Australia, Qatar, South Korea and the United States for the 2022 tournament, will find out on December 2 whether its ambitious proposal paid off.
But any sense of victory will be tempered by the Herculean task the country now faces in trying to turn a package of ideas, which appear to be stolen wholesale from science fiction, into science fact.
At the heart of Japan's bid is a plan to broadcast entire games to stadiums on the other side of the world in what appears to be life-sized holograms.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
[ If the technology is there, it’ll soon be in homes... Imagine watching the Super Bowl play out in 3-D on your living room floor. ]
Imagine how fun this will be for people who have pets....
One of the first moving pictures was porn. Same for VHS, DVD, internet, etc.
This will be cool!
/P off
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