Disney seems to be reinventing the Odd Couple via a new partnership between Disney Research and an Irish scientific organization called Clarity that aims to explore the use of multiple cameras (several dozen) to enhance sporting events.
The researchers said they will initially focus on the sport of field hockey by outfitting University College Dublin’s hockey pitch with up to 21 cameras to capture a wide variety of information for evaluation by researchers on a weekly basis.
This project is part of a larger research agreement focused on advanced application-oriented research in sensor networks, wireless motion sensing/tracking, motion capture, WiFi network modeling, and human-computer interaction.
Unfortunately, there’s no information on exactly what they plan to do. Stereoscopic 3D? Realtime 3D Reconstructions? Automatic Object Tracking? Who knows..
