MadSci Network: Engineering |
If you were to use a series of “giant complexly shaped lenses” for every seat in a stadium, the lenses for adjacent seats would physically interfere with each other, since they would need to occupy your entire field of view as well as the entire field of view of the person sitting next to you.
The person sitting next to you would have a different perspective than you, but would have an overlapping field of view. So it would not be possible to “have all seats in a big stadium be able to see whatever is in the field as if they were right at the sidelines”.
Additionally, the cost of attempting such a system would be astronomical, as lenses are very expensive to build, install and maintain.
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