A LIVE, 3D Sporting event was broadcast on the last Sunday in January 2010 by Sky Sports. It was the first world's sporting event, the Premier League match between home club, Arsenal and Manchester United. Chris Foy reffed and over 60,000 watched the "spectacle"; those not at the ground watched through special 3D specs.
These fans wearing special spectacles, distributed around nine pubs in London, Manchester, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Dublin and Belfast witnessed this historic match. Filming the action was done at a variety of angles, by 16 high-definition cameras at The Emirates Stadium and shown on Europe's first dedicated 3D Channel.
United won 1-3 with goals, including an opening goal, scored following a gaffe by the unsure Gunners' keeper, Manuel Almunia (left). Wayne Rooney and Ji-Sung Park followed up with two more.
Most of his professional career was spent with Arsenal, for whom he signed in 2004, going on to play 175 official matches and winning tiohe 2005 FA Cup. He also had a short loan spell at West Ham Utd.
In 2012, after his contract expired, Almunia joined Watford and played there for two years, following which, he retired on medical advice.
Centre-back Thomas Vermaelen scored a consolation for The Gunners, with ten minutes to go. BUT the World's first football goal to be shown in 3D was an own goal.
Below, a link to a previous blog, with some more facts.
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3994718670252035536/931363306461570199
The world's first live televised sporting event was the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. On 17 May 1939 in the United States, the first televised match was a college baseball game between the Columbia Lions and Princeton Tigers, which was broadcast by NBC from Columbia's Baker Field in New York City. Princeton won that game 8–6.
