Lifesized Holographic 3D Football Matches Reality by 2022?

Life sized holographic 3D football games could be broadcasting live football games in 2022 if Japan wins its World Cup bid.

As some of us in the UK spend the next 24 hours pondering whether we will be awarded the chance to host the 2018 World Cup, the Japanese are going to high tech extremes in a final pitch to host the 2022 World Cup games. Are you ready for this? The Japan 2022 bid committee propose paving 400 stadiums around the world with 3D flat screens broadcasting holographic style images of each game around the globe.

"I have to admit that the idea of this blows my mind away," admitted Japan 2022 bid committee chief executive Kohzo Tashima.

"Three hundred and sixty million people could have a full stadium experience of matches; that's over 100 times the number of spectators at the 1994 World Cup in the United States," he told FIFA's executive committee.

Fifa's officials were presented with the idea of entire pitches such as Wembley being paved with 3D displays today in Zurich, a day before the hosts for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup will be chosen. Projectors would broadcast the image onto the displays in 3D providing people in the stadium the illusion of watching the game as if they were spectators watching the games for real as if they were in Japan.

"Our nation's bid is not about one nation hosting the games or two nations, but 208 regions and FIFA nations hosting the game together," said Junji Ogura, chairman of the Japanese bid and a member of FIFA's executive committee. "Create a World Cup for the next generation to bring 208 smiles to the world," he urged his fellow footballing offocials.

The entire proposal is backed by Sony too;

"I can tell you that this is not science fiction, in 2022 this will be science fact," said  Sony chairman Howard Stringer, dressed in a Japan football jersey.

It is estimated that if the plan goes ahead, 360 million spectators would watch the game 'virtually' in all corners of the globe.

Whether this will actually happen or not is not certain. Surely it would be more practical to view the matches in Super Hi-Vision 3D auditoriums. The proposal would be mind-blowingly expensive and how it would work in bright sunshine is unclear but it is good to know that innovation and future concepts are being taken seriously. I am not personally a major football fan but I certainly will be for this!

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