3D Trip

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     I was unable to attend the NSA conference but I probably hit the 
     second hottest spot of 3D activity (maybe third after Dr. T's 
     house),,,Disney/Universal/NASA.  I shot 7 rolls of Kodachrome 64 with 
     my Wirgin and only saw the note about Target processing after I had 
     sent them off to be developed unmounted.  Note to Kodachrome users, 
     bring your own,  they do not sell it at Disney or Universal.  
        The best: Terminator 2 - 3D  great Cinerama-like wrap around 3D 
     during the finale, worst: Lucy's 3D slides at Universal Studios, nice 
     display of Lucy and Ricky's Realist and a pile of their slides and 6 
     slides mounted in viewers, 2 of them looked totally flat and 2 were 
     marginally OK,  the last two were so horribly mounted I could barely 
     fuse them and I am used to looking at my mounting disasters.
     
     I also saw: L5 - First City in Space the IMAX 3D film at the NASA 
     visitors center.  The usual IMAX quality image but not as action 
     packed as the other shows.  The computer animated sequences were as 
     good as any 3D film shot I have seen but many of the people shots 
     seemed to have very shallow depth of field.
     Honey I Shrunk the Audience & Muppetvision 3D, both were entertaining 
     and the 3D was pretty good but they go for too many things floating 
     out "in" the theatre.  It was hard to fuse some of them and I could 
     see some ghosting.  All the shows used polarized glasses, IMAX used 
     much larger "lenses" for a wide field of view.  I also tried a 
     Motorola virtual reality head mounted display but I was disappointed 
     after hearing about Dactyl Nightmare and others of this type.  The 
     display was lo-res and NOT a very impressive demo.  Disney was 
     reportedly developing a virtual reality magic carpet ride but the 
     attendant at the demo said they decided the headsets were too 
     cumbersome and the setup we tried was on a 4 foot rear projection TV 
     and the flight was controlled by a joystick type control,  the 
     graphics were nice but only a small step up from DOOM.  
     
     Duane Perry
     perryd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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