World Cup 2018

Preezy wrote:Everyone seen the clip of Robbie Williams swearing at the camera during the opening ceremony? What a monumental dickhead

I saw a picture of him sticking his middle finger up at the camera, but didn’t notice it at the time.

The chance to flip off over a billion people must have been overwhelming. :lol:

Robbie Williams is probably more cocaine than person by now, and he was already a dickhead to begin with....

Tomous wrote:Robbie Williams is probably more cocaine than person by now, and he was already a dickhead to begin with....

He looks just like Morrisey now. I assume he didn’t go the whole way though and replaced the racism with rude gestures at cameras.

He's always been an attention-seeking twat. No surprise to see him acting like a cock here.

Anyone going to try watching a game in VR?

I downloaded it and played around last night. There were just some preview videos available to watch on a big screen, but they said match highlights of the games they don't have would be available. Checked to see if they were in it this morning, and they're not, but the preview stuff is all gone too. The BBC programme is about to start, so hopefully there's something to watch in there when that happens, but it wouldn't surprise me if there's nothing til the game kicks off.

I don't have VR myself, but I imagine being able to watch the match from the viewpoint of a fan in the stands whilst sat in your living room would be an amazing experience. I guess the resolution would need to be very high for it to be really immersive though, which probably means it won't be very immersive.

Got the 4k feed from the BBC on now, looks pretty nice.

Preezy wrote:So apparently Ashley Young is going to start for England on Monday. If you'd told me 3 years ago that he'd be United and England's first choice left back I've have asked which timelines I was in

Quite impressive really for a converted winger, he's reinvented himself to ensure survival.

Ah 3 years ago, a time of such innocence and frivolity, before we embarked upon the darkest timeline

Hyperion wrote:
Preezy wrote:So apparently Ashley Young is going to start for England on Monday. If you'd told me 3 years ago that he'd be United and England's first choice left back I've have asked which timelines I was in

Quite impressive really for a converted winger, he's reinvented himself to ensure survival.

Ah 3 years ago, a time of such innocence and frivolity, before we embarked upon the darkest timeline

It's like an episode of Sliders :lol:

What a strange stadium. Those in the upper decks behind goal have no roof coverage.

The Guardian have an article up stating that the starting XI will be: Pickford, Walker, Stones, Maguire, Trippier Young, Henderson, Alli, Lingard, Sterling, Kane.

KK wrote:What a strange stadium. Those in the upper decks behind goal have no roof coverage.

It looks like they built the outside of the stadium first and then realised they'd strawberry floated it and forgot to add the goal stands in :lol:

Suarez with the Sterling vs. Italy 'goal' that everyone thought was in for four years ago.

Has Suarez eaten anybody yet.

well he hasnt got on the pitch yet which is where he tends to do most of his biting

<]:^D wrote:well he hasnt got on the pitch yet which is where he tends to do most of his biting

Er, yes he has?

Tomous wrote:
<]:^D wrote:well he hasnt got on the pitch yet which is where he tends to do most of his biting

Er, yes he has?

He's on the pitch but he left his shooting boots on the bench.

Interesting experience in VR!

Obviously the resolution is a big drawback, but it's kind of weird as I think it's not entirely down to the PSVR headset. You can have an optional TV screen above you that's displaying the regular TV view, and that is much, much clearer.

You're sat in a virtual lounge sort of thing, with a huge opening in the wall in front of you that looks out over the pitch. It works great for the 'hospitality box' view, but feels very odd for the behind the goal views. You can't really look around you or behind you like you were able to do for the Champions League final last year. You also miss out on all the pre-game/half time punditry, but it would be so easy for them to include it on the virtual screen I mentioned above.

It's very easy to switch between the 3 views during the game. Switched to behind the goal for a corner, and it was very obvious Suarez had hit the side netting when the commentators were wondering why it had been ruled out. There was another moment where he got tackled, and they were talking about him beating himself up out of the shot, and it was cool to be able to see everything and look down on him doing just that.

Sounds interesting, might be a silly question but can you take a screenshot/video that you could share? Not sure if that's a feature in VR?

That sounds really good to be fair

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