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Until now. Exploiting advances in computer graphics, liquid-crystal technology and extra-wide-format films, a Canadian company has developed a new technique that makes objects pop out of the screen with unprecedented clarity and brilliance and causes no eyestrain. The new technology, called Imax Solido, was created by Imax Systems, the Toronto-based company that makes movies to be shown on screens the size of six-story buildings. The first Solido 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...
...current, an LCD lens can instantly switch from being essentially transparent to being totally opaque -- like an efficient electronic shutter. Controlled by an infrared signal broadcast from the projection booth, the goggles' left and right lenses open and close 24 times a second, in synchronization with a pair of Imax projectors showing first the left-eye view and then the right-eye view of any scene. The 3-D effect is unusually crisp because the projectors are extremely stable, the separation of right- and left-eye views is precise, and the movie frames are ten times as large as those...
...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...
Also aboard is a special 70-millimeter IMAX camera to photograph environmentally-deteriorating areas of the Earth...
...Space museum is the most popular of its kind in the world, and for good reason. Planes hang from the ceiling. Rockets rise from the carpeted floor. And a five-story cinema shows amazing IMAX movies like "The Dream is Alive," which will make you feel like you are in the cockpit of the Space Shuttle...