City Building World's 1st Football Stadium in the Metaverse

NZBlue said:
And all this from the company that brought you Betamax???????
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*Cough* PlayStation *cough* CD player *cough* Walkman *cough* DVD *cough*

…and a whole host of other ‘failures’ like Betamax
 
If it takes off, you can foresee potential falling levels of live crowds.

Cheaper, easier and ticks more boxes of the ‘younger’ generations.

But that’s maybe 5-10 years or so away of gaining that level of market penetration of the VR headsets - remember how the take-up of mobile phones happened, part of it was fuelled by the (afterthought added) take up of SMS text messaging by the youth.
Change/take-up is driven by the younger generations.

so… if it does take-off, then any new stadiums being upgraded/built/planned are potentially under-filled white elephants.

Covid showed that top-level football could be played in front of almost no-one. It was hideous for the lack of atmosphere (even on TV), and the players didn’t like it either- but imagine a halfway point - potentially smaller, intimate stadiums full of safe standing fanatic fans, with the same vast audience on TV and an ever increasing number of VR audience as the markets get penetrated (no Mr KW pics thanks!).

If City lead the way, in the football VR, great.
If it’s successful, marvellous.
If it’s unsuccessful, well a lot of people like Mr Zuckerberg of Facebook Meta fame will have lost a lot of money, but it won’t affect how ‘City’ operate.
 
burning blue soul said:
Don't give a fuck about Mataverse, but all this bullshit doesn't bode well for us regulars. That's all I'll say on that matter...
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Oh I don't know. Wouldn't interest me, but it's actually only a couple of levels up in sophistication from watching every single game on the telly. With the added advantage that you can cut out all the crap commentary made in bad faith from ‘pundits’ on BT and suchlike. Which you can do anyway, merely be turning a switch with “volume” marked on it.

By the way, I presume that it'll have an option to have a virtual representation of a moaning git in the row in front of you who goes on and on about how shit Sterling is?

I used to be a bit judgemental about professed City supporters who lived in the Greater Manchester area, who are presumably fit and able, and who only watched us on the telly. But actually, when I see that the cheapest seat for this afternoon's game is £63, I can now well understand it. Just out of interest, how much is a monthly subscription to Sky Sports or BT? (Incidentally, I'll be watching this afternoon's match on the telly, but given that it's 662 kilometres from where I live to the Etihad, and I've got I think the worst case of sciatica I've ever had, I'm not going to beat myself up about it…)
 
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