"Sean" <sean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Thomas Paterson wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone - anyone played with this yet?
>> http://www.eyeliner3d.com/
>
> I was working at the 2005 MTV Awards in Lisbon where it was used for the
> Gorillaz cartoon characters to appear 'live' on stage. Viewed from the
> right angle it was *very* effective. (It looked fantastic from the
floor,
> wasn't quite so good for the members of the live audience who were high
> enough to see the projection screen on the stage floor.)
>
> There's a video snippet of that performance on the same site:
> http://www.eyeliner3d.com/gorillaz_mtv_awards.html
>
> Around the same time Gorillaz were playing a short spell in the
Manchester
> Opera House, I wasn't there but I gather the main performance was their
> conventional (but very clever and effective) shadowplay while the
Pepper's
> Ghost malarky was used to make the characters appear to heckle from one
of
> the boxes. (Think Waldorf & Statler in the Muppet Show.)
>
>> Could be useful in the short term for fixed
>> locations like remote witness programs in court, etcetera.
>
> Can't really see that. For one thing, despite the hype its only a 2d
> image
> so why bother, better a nice big conventional monitor really, like a
> plasma
> screen. For another, its still Pepper's Ghost with all its drawbacks -
> the
> viewing angle is somewhat limited and the ambient lighting has to be
just
> right - not ideal for a court room to say the least.
>
> Sean
> x
Are you saying its a kind of projection TV? I'm not sure I understand.
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