View Fans from World Series Games with TagOramic
MLB has a crazy new feature that let’s you view the entire crowd of every World Series game and two games from each of the other playoff series. During the game a single camera takes hundreds of photographs of the crowd, which are spliced together into a gigantic panoramic photograph. The photograph is of such high resolution that you can zoom in to see individual faces. It is linked up with Facebook so that you can tag yourself or your friend. It is called TagOramic. This is the full picture from last night’s game.
The boxes indicate how many fans in each section have been tagged. Those tagged have a blue indicator, but only their friends can see who they are. If you are friends with a person the indicator is red, and, if it is you, yellow. Here is a picture zoomed in on a section of the crowd.
Pretty good resolution, MLB gives the details on the photograph:
Panoramic image from the third inning of Game 4 of the World Series at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, TX. The image is made up of 360 photos (30 across by 12 down) stitched together taken over a 19-minute span. The final hi-res file is 83,287 X 19,158 pixels or 1,596 megapixels. Photos by David Bergman.
I imagine it would be fun to see myself or a friend captured at some random point in the game, but none of my friends have been to any of the games. Even so it is cool to scan around the field and find people mid-hotdog bite, cheering, talking on their phone (it is surprising how many people are talking on or checking their phone), or whatever.
It does feel strange, and a little voyeuristic, to see this one moment in time for 50 thousand-ish people. From a privacy perspective I guess going to a game leaves you open to being projected on the jumbotron, or even being on the TV broadcast, and this isn’t any more of an invasion.
I was on the lookout for a particular group of fans at the game last night and found them in the first row on the first-base line.
Anyway a pretty cool application of high-resolution photography, photo-splicing software and Facebook tagging.
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Just out of curiosity, does MLB claim the right to document and publish whom was at a baseball game? And I would imagine that if somebody took their under 12-year-old child to a baseball game, I don’t care what their ticket said, MLB cannot claim the right to post pictures of children on the internet without the “express written consent” of their guardian.
Mrs. Bush rocking the scorecard was pretty cool to see.
This seems like the exact opposite of cool.
I’d agree. Terrifying.
Cosign. I may avoid going to these games altogether if they’re going to do this.
waiting for the first case of a man caught cheating on his wife w/ tagorganic photo used in the divorce proceedings
Not quite as bad, but I used it to bust my brother and his friend wearing neutral colors at Game 4 of the ALCS. Wusses.
Last night on the broadcast, they zoomed in on someone dressed as Waldo and said, “There he is!” Which means, this photo is a gigantic Where’s Waldo game. Enjoy!
Apparently they snapped this one while I was walking around looking for Dippin’ Dots… which is what I now do whenever Tommy Hunter is pitching. Man, he sucks.
oh shut up all of you. I think this is fantastic! Maybe you don;t want your wife to find out your cheating? Are you crazy? Can’t publish a picture of a child on the internet? Are you nuts? You know how many times I flashed a pic on holiday and unknowing people are in the background? Shut up all of you!
…so because you think this is cool, the rest of us should shut up. Interesting.