Comments on: The Future of Football is Holographic http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/ A soccer blog featuring essays, news and photography exploring soccer around the world Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Holy http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/comment-page-1/#comment-6161 Holy Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:25:00 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/#comment-6161 Why I can't making the space on IE? Photo is a very funny, thanks for a great post. Why I can’t making the space on IE?
Photo is a very funny, thanks for a great post.

]]> By: Sohbet http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/comment-page-1/#comment-6143 Sohbet Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:04:23 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/#comment-6143 [...] read the full report in PDF form here and some intelligent commentary from Tom at Pitch Invasion here. Or you can read a quick summary with some poorly though out gut reactions [...] [...] read the full report in PDF form here and some intelligent commentary from Tom at Pitch Invasion here. Or you can read a quick summary with some poorly though out gut reactions [...]

]]> By: Canlı Tv http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/comment-page-1/#comment-5967 Canlı Tv Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:31:29 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/#comment-5967 Continuing this nostalgic theme, the Report then reminds us fans have lost the connection of their club to the community, citing FC United of Manchester, Barcelona and MyFC as examples of interest in supporter ownership that it sees as growing in response to this Continuing this nostalgic theme, the Report then reminds us fans have lost the connection of their club to the community, citing FC United of Manchester, Barcelona and MyFC as examples of interest in supporter ownership that it sees as growing in response to this

]]> By: oxgz http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/comment-page-1/#comment-5965 oxgz Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:27:44 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/#comment-5965 It would be helpful if the people who come up with this stuff just stayed in Second Life . . It would be helpful if the people who come up with this stuff just stayed in Second Life . .

]]> By: güzel sözler http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/comment-page-1/#comment-5551 güzel sözler Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:26:37 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/#comment-5551 So now we’ll have tiny holographic boards in every pub, with 100 people sitting around them and watching 6-inch replicas of their footballing heroes mimicking their exact motions on the pitch. So now we’ll have tiny holographic boards in every pub, with 100 people sitting around them and watching 6-inch replicas of their footballing heroes mimicking their exact motions on the pitch.

]]> By: Mehmet http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/comment-page-1/#comment-3181 Mehmet Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:52:36 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/#comment-3181 ican't-underttand-really.why-ican't-making-the-space-on-the-words ican’t-underttand-really.why-ican’t-making-the-space-on-the-words

]]> By: The Future of Football (but probably not) - World Football - The Offside - Soccer News and Opinion from leagues around the world http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/comment-page-1/#comment-3133 The Future of Football (but probably not) - World Football - The Offside - Soccer News and Opinion from leagues around the world Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:45 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/#comment-3133 [...] read the full report in PDF form here and some intelligent commentary from Tom at Pitch Invasion here. Or you can read a quick summary with some poorly though out gut reactions [...] [...] read the full report in PDF form here and some intelligent commentary from Tom at Pitch Invasion here. Or you can read a quick summary with some poorly though out gut reactions [...]

]]> By: Dave's Football Blog http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/comment-page-1/#comment-3113 Dave's Football Blog Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:42:03 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/#comment-3113 The whole holographic display thing is bollocks. Futurists throw this out every year because they think the Trekkies will get all excited that they'll actually get something close to their holodeck one day. So now we'll have tiny holographic boards in every pub, with 100 people sitting around them and watching 6-inch replicas of their footballing heroes mimicking their exact motions on the pitch. Will the Spurs supporters mock the little 6-inch Arsene Wenger stalking the sidelines, too? Hey, why not just set up entire grounds for life-size holographic displays and let fans root for ghosts in Liverpool jerseys rather than actual living, breathing players? The only thing more bogus than holographic displays is holographic storage. Where's that CD-sized 1-terabyte disk I was promised 5 years ago? All we have is 50GB Blu-ray discs? Bah. I've often thought that those giant 12-screen movie theaters would one day go fully digital, accept satellite feeds and sell tickets to live events rather than films. Watching the game on a 25-foot screen at Quad-HD resolution has a certain appeal to it. However, it's not nearly outlandish enough for the average futurist. The whole holographic display thing is bollocks. Futurists throw this out every year because they think the Trekkies will get all excited that they’ll actually get something close to their holodeck one day. So now we’ll have tiny holographic boards in every pub, with 100 people sitting around them and watching 6-inch replicas of their footballing heroes mimicking their exact motions on the pitch. Will the Spurs supporters mock the little 6-inch Arsene Wenger stalking the sidelines, too? Hey, why not just set up entire grounds for life-size holographic displays and let fans root for ghosts in Liverpool jerseys rather than actual living, breathing players?

The only thing more bogus than holographic displays is holographic storage. Where’s that CD-sized 1-terabyte disk I was promised 5 years ago? All we have is 50GB Blu-ray discs? Bah.

I’ve often thought that those giant 12-screen movie theaters would one day go fully digital, accept satellite feeds and sell tickets to live events rather than films. Watching the game on a 25-foot screen at Quad-HD resolution has a certain appeal to it. However, it’s not nearly outlandish enough for the average futurist.

]]> By: Tom Dunmore http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/comment-page-1/#comment-3101 Tom Dunmore Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:50:12 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/#comment-3101 I was also tempted to merely ridicule, and couldn't completely abstain. But whilst individually each prediction seemed absurd on its merits as ursus notes, it was interesting the way they formed something of a theme collectively regarding the attempt to reconstitute through technology exactly what "progress" had destroyed. And much thanks to Brian for elucidating this theme further in his comment. Technological innovation isn't negative in each step in itself -- after all, I'm enjoying a much better (dare I say, more authentic) experience of a football match watching it in High Definition with Dolby Surround Sound than I did as a kid watching grainy highlights on my black & white TV in mono. Yet as a whole, the development of this greater virtual experience tempts people away and ultimately prices them out from the very thing that attracted them to the game in the first place as commercialisation runs rampant on the back of satellite transmissions. It's something of a quandary for the global football fan. I didn't even mention the virtually "smelly" stadium mentioned in the report -- perhaps they can recreate the beloved stench of piss and pot from the terraces of the 1980s we all miss in our plastic stadia today. I was also tempted to merely ridicule, and couldn’t completely abstain. But whilst individually each prediction seemed absurd on its merits as ursus notes, it was interesting the way they formed something of a theme collectively regarding the attempt to reconstitute through technology exactly what “progress” had destroyed. And much thanks to Brian for elucidating this theme further in his comment.

Technological innovation isn’t negative in each step in itself — after all, I’m enjoying a much better (dare I say, more authentic) experience of a football match watching it in High Definition with Dolby Surround Sound than I did as a kid watching grainy highlights on my black & white TV in mono. Yet as a whole, the development of this greater virtual experience tempts people away and ultimately prices them out from the very thing that attracted them to the game in the first place as commercialisation runs rampant on the back of satellite transmissions. It’s something of a quandary for the global football fan.

I didn’t even mention the virtually “smelly” stadium mentioned in the report — perhaps they can recreate the beloved stench of piss and pot from the terraces of the 1980s we all miss in our plastic stadia today.

]]> By: ursus arctos http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/comment-page-1/#comment-3099 ursus arctos Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:41:48 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/02/17/the-future-of-football-is-holographic/#comment-3099 Aw crap. Here I was all set to fire off a few one-liners, and that Phillips makes a series of serious points with his usual aplomb. Anyway, it's pretty-much all standard "futurist" bollocks of the type beloved by the purveyors of the technology that could, maybe, perhaps, one day (but not now) make it possible. It would be helpful if the people who come up with this stuff just stayed in Second Life . . . Aw crap.

Here I was all set to fire off a few one-liners, and that Phillips makes a series of serious points with his usual aplomb.

Anyway, it’s pretty-much all standard “futurist” bollocks of the type beloved by the purveyors of the technology that could, maybe, perhaps, one day (but not now) make it possible.

It would be helpful if the people who come up with this stuff just stayed in Second Life . . .

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