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Japan should have gotten 2022
| quote: | Japan promises high-tech 2022 World Cup
By JOHN LEICESTER, AP Sports Writer Dec 1, 2:53 pm EST
ZURICH (AP)âJapan promised an experience as though fans are in the actual stadium, watching and living a World Cup match even when they are on the other side of the globe.
Aiming to dazzle FIFA with modern magic, Japan said Wednesday that if it hosts the World Cup in 2022 it will beam games to stadiums around the planet using revolutionary 3-D technology.
Members of the Japanese delegation arrive at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, to present their bid to host the soccer World Cup 2022.
The broadcasts will make it seem as though players are rising out of the ground, almost holographically. The soccer action in Japan would be filmed using hundreds of cameras and be broadcast to screens that will be laid flat on the fields of iconic locations like Wembley Stadium in London or the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro.
The 3-D images will protrude from the ground, making it seem to fans that they are witnessing the real game. The players would appear to be life-size and the action would be in real time.
That, at least, is what the Japanese promised.
âThe idea of this technology blows my mind,â Kohzo Tashima, the CEO of the Japanese bid, said in its presentation to the executive committee of FIFA, which will chose the 2018 and 2022 hosts on Thursday.
He said it will allow 360 million people around the worldâmany times more than at any previous World Cupsâto enjoy a âfull stadium experience,â offer âa completely new experience of enjoying footballâ and provide FIFA with âdramaticâ new ways to make money.
Japanâs team, presenting last of five nations bidding for 2022, showed computer-generated mock-ups of what the images would look like but not a working model of the technology.
However, Sony chairman and CEO Howard Stringer said the so-called Full Court 3-D Vision will work.
âThis is not science fiction,â he said. âIn 2022, this will be science fact.â
Japan is not considered the favorite to win Thursdayâs vote, in part because it co-hosted the World Cup in 2002 with South Korea, which also is bidding again.
Stringer acknowledged those concerns, saying that the 2002 tournament âseemed like it only happened yesterday.â But he and others in the bid presentation focused on Japanâs promise of a technological leap for soccer and FIFA.
âWe are talking about one very big idea,â said Junji Ogura, the bid chairman who also is a FIFA executive and will have a vote Thursday. âThis is the next great adventure FIFA can lead.â
The other candidates for 2022 are the United States, Australia and Qatar. |
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