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Tags: virtual tour, Tony Blair, Downing Street]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/take_a_virtual_tour_of_10_downing_street Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:50:03 GMT Ryder Cup is great, especially when Europe wins. But to be honest, watching golf is difficult sometimes as the ball is so small. It's frustrating as there's no reason why it can't be made a lot more fun. Here's an idea that I hope some company like Virtual Spectator or the Hawk Eye people might implement sometime soon. Now Hawk Eye are the people who track cricket balls and more recently tennis balls using high speed cameras and Virtual Spectator are the guys who broadcast the Volvo Ocean Race and World Rally Championship races over the web in virtual form. So the idea is, you download a program with a 3d window a bit like google earth and instead of getting some TV images, you watch what's happening in 3D. Now, if you could track a golf ball the way Hawk Eye can and work out its position, you could broadcast the proceedings virtually. Watch from and control your own virtual camera angles, rather than the TV's. In fact you could even make it into a sort of video game. Users could try to make the putt themselves from where Tiger has just landed on the green. Show lots of golf stats, show the live TV at the same time, let users look at any archive rounds golfers made in previous years.

There are various other sports for which this sort of thing could be done. Perhaps it's the way sport will be broadcast in the future! Hope so.

Tags: Ryder Cup, Virtual Spectator, Hawk Eye]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/virtual_ryder_cup Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:22:16 GMT Virtual Replay." A brilliant idea. I work in 3d graphics and simulation so it's especially interesting to me to find that this sort of thing is taking off in sport (there's Channel 4's Hawkeye and Virtual spectator who do yachting, rallying, etc) and even game shows like Time Commanders.

Anyway, back to Euro 2004 and completely unrelated to 3d graphics, my Tournament Predictor might interest you if you want to see who the team you're supporting could meet in later rounds. The BBC sport one does scores too.

Tags: Euro 2004, Virtual Spectator]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/euro_2004 Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:01:26 GMT end of football season blues, here are two good links I've come across - A virtual tour of the new Wembley Stadium (tickets on sale now...) and Shaolin Soccer. By all accounts it looks like a classic. One of my colleagues just got the dvd from CD-Wow and I'm dying to borrow it off him!

Tags: Wembley, virtual]]> http://www.nimisis.com/comments/comment_180 Fri, 30 May 2003 22:14:36 GMT