P3D Imax Orlando

[Andy Burr <AndyBurr@xxxxxxx>]

Excerpts from a May 1 Orlando Sentinel story:

"Orlando will soon have its first commercial Imax 3D theater when Muvico
Pointe 21 Theaters opens this summer on International Drive.
    "Riveting action eight stories high and 98 feet wide...in the tallest
movie theater in the country....500-seat auditorium.... Will open with 'Into
The Deep'...."

It's the first "commercial" Imax / Iwerks theater here because the other
large-screen theaters in the area (at Orlando Science Center, Daytona USA
racing attraction, Universal Studios, Disney World, Epcot, Kennedy Space
Center, SeaWorld) are each part of a larger attraction.

The story also mentions the CineDome, the Orlando Science Center's Iwerks
large-format film system, which projects onto a huge domed screen. The article
notes that it shows Imax-made films, but says it is limited to 2-D. "3-D
doesn't enhance your view in a dome," says a Science Center rep, "but a flat
screen is enhanced by goggles and 3-D."

Sounds to me like a sour grapes statement by the Science Center rep. I think
it was the Kilburn Bros who started making their stereoviews with a curved
surface in the 1880s. And the Orl Sci Center strongly hypes their own 3-D
laser shows in the CineDome. The rep also pointedly used the goofy word
"goggles" twice. The story doesn't mention whether the Muvico Imax will use
polarized glasses or LCS headsets.



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