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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: ont.events,net.space,net.movies
Subject: Showscan - space simulator in Toronto
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 13:23:01 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 28 13:23:01 1985
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Summary: Coming soon


There have been some articles in the news recently about a tourist
attraction soon to be opening in Toronto, and I thought I'd summarize
them for the benefit of interested readers who missed them.

What this will be is a simulation of commercial space travel, complete
with window dressing like simulated vaccinations and "off-world passports".
The highlight, the actual "trip", will give you and your fellow
"travelers" about 20 minutes of "travel" in a SIMULATOR adapted
from those used for training airline pilots (and railway drivers).

Visual effects will be produced using a process that I take to be
Douglas Trumbull's Showscan, which was discussed in net.movies a while ago:
70 mm film (I think), projected at 60 frames a second for extra realism.

Admission will be about $7.  Sounds like fun to me.  I'm planning to try it.
The location is the base of the CN Tower in Toronto; they are planning to
open in "a few" weeks.

All this information is from memory, but I don't think I've made any
substantial errors.  I hope ont.events is not too inappropriate; I don't
consider that this is of interest to space and movie enthusiasts only.
Mark Brader