Re: Edmunds Optic Mirage

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edsap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Homer) wrote:

>I have examined my optic mirage device ...
>...From what others in the group say even Edmunds version seems to have been
>around for some time and I do remember seing one in a different cataloge
>some time before the one I bought. I also have a book on holography which
>...The American patent number is 3647234...

The patent number for this device was issued in 1972.

>...refers to them because they have been confused with holograms also a
>Russian scientist who produced a moving projected holographic image used
>parabolic reflectors to do so .

There was an arcade game several years ago that used this principle.
It had tiny "holographic" characters, maybe 4-6" tall, visible
above the flat playing surface of the game.  It was a western/fantasy
type game.  You travelled back/forward in time, killing the bad
guys (6-shooting, usually).   It was of the "Dragon's Lair" format...
a real movie plays, with you having to make certain moves (jump, shoot, duck) at 
key times in order to avoid getting killed.
It said "HOLOGRAPHIC (TM)" right on the game in huge letters, but it really wasn't
a holographic process (therefore the TM symbol-it was part of the game's name); it
was just these mirrors.  It's only a hologram if lasers are involved, and this was 
nothing of the sort; it just was a video disk projector with this parabolic mirror
setup.  The game's whole name escapes me right now...
I remember I drove all the way across town one lunch hour just to
play this "holographic" game, and was very dissapointed that it wasn't.

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Rick "I like my original non-halogen bulb in my AC viewer just fine" Inzero
Northern Telecom, Inc.                          
Rochester, NY                                   rdi@xxxxxxx


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