Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1178

[Ronald J Beck 840196 <rbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** In Photo-3D digest #1178 you said...

>The game was called "Space Ranger" [I think]
>and it was on a kind of flat black table, the characters "appeared"
>to stand and walk around freely on the table, just like the image of
>princess Leia in Star wars... where R2d2 shows her message to Obi Wan.
>
>The thing is though, is that the image was *NOT* holographic at all!
>it was an entirely different process.
>If you get a nice shiny spoon and look at reflections then sometimes 
things
>appear to be floating in space... somehow this effect was improved and
>put into the game.

I believe this is (was) accomplished using a parabolic mirror.  I remember 
seeing something similar that you could place an object in and it would 
appear to be "floating" in space.  A person could view the object but 
couldn't pick it up.  In all, it's a pretty bizarre phenomenon.

Ron


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