NBC Covers Football in 360 Degrees Photography, Matrix Style

Aug. 5, 2013 - PRLog -- 360 Photography goes way back to the famous 1999 Keanu Reeves movie, The Matrix. Used as a creative visual effect, 360 Photography was able to capture the awesomeness of Neo dodging and stopping flying bullets. Please watch movie clip below:

The same type of effect will now be used by NBC to capture pro Football games. NHK, famous Japanese television show already announced about providing a richer and immersive coverage in 360 degrees photography. NBC revealed that they will be using 24-cameras attached together in a rig (two of these actually one in each end zone) building a multi-camera system that can capture scenes simultaneously from multiple angles. An image stitching software will stitch and process all images together to create a 360 degrees photography effect on the scene.

To know more about 360 photography, here are some samples beside The Matrix clip:

360 Degree Photography of a Shoe - youspin(dot)co
360 Degree Photography Booth

If this 360 degrees photography football coverage will be in effect this year like they say it will at the Giants/Cowboys game in Dallas on September 8th, we can all enjoy a 360 degrees replays of Football awesomeness!

Reference: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2380676/NBC-provi...