Word: wraparound
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...effects fit the strict definition of virtual reality. Only a few make use of the computer helmet that guides your wraparound view and allows you to "move" objects in cyberspace. Most are only virtually virtual: variations on arcade games or tweakings of Disney's Star Tours ride, which craftily gyrate a pod in time with jolting screen images. But all the systems have a common goal: to give you a new-horizons, touchy-feely, out-of-mind experience. Virtual reality? Perhaps. Virtual theatricality? For sure...
...best moment is the first, when an old lion of a man taps his way, tentative yet trying to be ferocious, toward the hospital bed at center stage. He removes wraparound dark glasses to reveal eyes that do not focus, that plainly cannot see. He fumbles, with slow majesty, to untie the sash of his robe. An audience cannot help feeling the brave pathos of the character and the star power of the actor. Unfortunately, at this point the play's dialogue begins, and the illusion of believability slips irretrievably away...
...LOOK LIKE A weird pair of wraparound sunglasses, but the new Sony Visortron has nothing to do with observing one's surroundings. On the contrary. Two tiny video screens (one in front of each eye) and a miniature videotape player provide the equivalent of a personal movie theater. Sony says a few hours of viewing do no harm to the user's eyes. The company hopes to market the device to airlines. First class, of course...
...week, Bill Clinton may have discovered the formula to revive his stalled campaign: exploit his sax appeal. During the brief rehearsal for the talk show, the visiting saxophone player joked nervously with the band, "If I screw up, play louder." Clinton need not have worried. So what if his wraparound shades were borrowed from an aide, the phosphorescent blue-and-yellow tie came from the show's wardrobe department, and some of the cool was donated by the adoring host? The image that came across on TV was that of a relaxed, self-deprecating candidate ("That's how I learned...
...Crimson made the best of the man-up opportunity sending in three goals in the final two minutes to regain the lead. Tim Reilly fired in a beautiful wraparound shot from the right side and Steve Buetow scooped in a grounder in the first minute of the penalty...