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When you attend a sporting event, you have a physical connection to the players. They can see and hear you. You can influence the outcome of the game. The 12th man in football. Watching a game on TV or the internet, there is no physical connection. You can't influence the outcome not matter what
you do.
The idea is to provide a feedback which is broadcast, displayed at the game. For example display logged in remote fans sound level or other input on the jumbotron. Colors representing the input. A pixel for each tavern or individual user. Or even a thousand web cams on the scoreboard. Even if it's small, it's at least as big an input as a live fan has on the outcome of the game. There would be lots of ways to try to abuse such a system, but some simple processing could insure the displays always look good.
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I understand what you mean about a manager manipulating what is displayed. I think it would be necessary to manipulate it but not to get it fully lit up but so that it appears dynamic and live. Colors changing with the ebb and flow of the game. This could be done by "auto-zeroing" each pixel based on average values of the input for that pixel. That way each pixel is based on the relative changes in input, not on the absolute value. So, there will always be a credibility question about whether input is really used on the display, but this would have to balance out creating a dynamic display that really would influence players. I believe this balance could be achieved without too much difficulty. |
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The point of having a live audience is that the players can feel the emotional memes and hear the live sound of the fans. What additional good would a series of brightly colored dots on the jumbotron do? There's no way that such a visual and cerebral process could produce the intricate emotional effect that live cheering (booing, etc.) can. What, Ronaldinho is going to look up at the jumbotron and get a burst of energy by seeing a partly colored screen and going "Gee, looks like a bunch of idiots are screaming at their TV sets!"? I think not. [-] |
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