Comments on: Virtual Replay

Virtual Replay

chill — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:03:54 -0800

Virtual Replay - Shockwave recreation of the major incidents in all the Euro 2004 matches. Select from multiple cameras, players' viewpoints or even the point of view of the ball. note - doesn't seem to work in Firefox.

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:29:17 -0800

This is so fucking unbelievably cool. To see Sweden's 2-0 goal against Bulgaria from Henrik Larsson's point of view almost made me wet my pants. Thank you, chill!

By: Mach3avelli

Mach3avelli — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:34:44 -0800

This is an awesome link that made my day. Thank you!

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:43:34 -0800

Seeing the England goal from Beckham's view had a similar effect on me.

By: Veritron

Veritron — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:44:29 -0800

It works fine in Firefox, it's just that getting shockwave installed in firefox requires a little ... doing.

By: Turtles all the way down

Turtles all the way down — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:07:46 -0800

(crashes Camino)

By: LairBob

LairBob — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:29:14 -0800

Two things... 1) I firmly believe this is the future of sports broadcasting--we'll continue to watch the "live" feeds in HDTV for a long time, I'm sure, but when you play some of the most recent videogames, it's clearly not long before that's a major way that fans can re-visit the action that took place 2) How was the motion digitized? Granted, some elements of this aren't totally convincing, and I haven't seen the original footage to judge it against, but it looks pretty passable. Did they just plot player positions, and generate Havok-like/"rag-doll" motions that matched, or is there some higher-level method of capturing limb positions, etc?

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:03:09 -0800

I firmly believe this is the future of sports broadcasting it's definitely cool to see the action from different angles, but they've got a long way to go. the goalies are completely unrealistic, and the ball movement is crazy too. getting shockwave installed in firefox requires a little ... doing. that's an understatement.

By: marvin

marvin — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:39:17 -0800

...doesn't seem to work in Safari either. Bummer.

By: marvin

marvin — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:48:42 -0800

....actually it does. Bloody clever. BBC rocks!

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:23:51 -0800

very cool to see the nistleroy goal from kahn's POV.

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:15:21 -0800

Related, Swedish Television catches Zinedine Zidane throwing up seconds before shooting the 2-1 penalty against England. (In Swedish, click on VIDEO). How cool is he?

By: tcp

tcp — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:08:58 -0800

nice find, chill. some more soccer flash fun: Torwandschiessen

By: ascullion

ascullion — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 02:48:27 -0800

How was the motion digitized? Granted, some elements of this aren't totally convincing, and I haven't seen the original footage to judge it against, but it looks pretty passable. Did they just plot player positions, and generate Havok-like/"rag-doll" motions that matched, or is there some higher-level method of capturing limb positions, etc? I don't know.. but I think it's a similar system to Hawkeye