Word: wraparound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film, a largely computer-generated extravaganza called Echoes of the Sun that was co-produced by the Japanese firm Fujitsu, opened last week at the Fujitsu Pavilion at Expo '90, an international fair in Osaka. Showgoers queued up for a chance to park themselves in front of a huge wraparound screen, strap on a pair of battery-powered goggles and enter a startlingly realistic 3-D world...
...viewer, it becomes larger and larger. If it gets big enough to reach the outer edges of the picture, however, it will appear to snap back to the plane of the screen, sending conflicting depth cues to the brain and destroying the 3-D illusion. The advantage of the wraparound Solido theater is that the edges of the screen are beyond the audience's field of view. "The screen seems to disappear in the peripheral vision," says Imax producer Roman Kroitor. "The picture stays right there; you can reach out and touch...
Lemon's goal was just one of five final-period tallies for the Big Red (6-3-2, 8-5-2), which trailed until a Ryan Hughes power play goal at 2:17 evened the score. Alex Nikolic's wraparound 1:33 later proved to be the game-winner...