Even the best seat in the house is not the best seat when the action is at the other end of the playfield. I've seen some sporting events where they have multiple cameras set up to always get the best view of the action. They have a man who watches all the camera feeds and switches to whichever one is offering the best view of the action. It's even better than the best seat in the house.

Back in the 90's, during the first attempt at mainstream VR, some company surrounded the World Cup Finals with 16 cameras, and they published an application that was the World Cup Finals as a 3D soccer field with 3D players, and a virtual camera that could be placed and moved anywhere during gameplay. The company was one of the video card manufacturers of the time, promoting their large and bulky VR headset. This was around '93-94?