We miss you, EyeVision.
Though never used in the college football broadcasting, this revolutionary technology is worth mentioning. EyeVision is a CBS-developed revolutionary reply system. This system use a hardware and software package to capture video of the game from multiple angles and then synchronize the video streams and interpolate between them.
The result is replays that could pause the action, rotate 180 degrees around it, and resume viewing from the other side. The replays are COOL! They look come out of the Matrix. According to arc technica, EyeVision requires deploying at least 33 cameras around the top of a stadium at the cost of $400,000.
The system was developed in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon professor Takeo Kanade, who had already been hard at work on something that he called "Virtualized Reality." Kanade's goal was to use many cameras to create three-dimensional models of real events that could be then be viewed even from angles that were not originally recorded.
The program cost CBS more than $2.5 million to develop and a few hundred thousand more to implement each time the system (and there was only one) was rolled out. Crews could take more than a week to fully install it at a new stadium, and it only shot in standard definition. After using it in a pair of Super Bowls, CBS decided to (at least for now) abandon EyeVision.
Source: ars technica
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For more information, visit Carnegie Mellon Goes to the Super Bowl.
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