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> "Sean" <sean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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> Are you saying its a kind of projection TV? I'm not sure I understand.
In one of the links from the thread they showed a diagram.
IIRC the projector was on a truss pointing down at a screen on the floor
and there was a diagonal mylar mirror above the screen but between
the background live action and the audience.
David
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