home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
TIME: Almanac 1990
/
1990 Time Magazine Compact Almanac, The (1991)(Time).iso
/
time
/
012389
/
01238900.012
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1990-09-17
|
1KB
|
22 lines
SPORT, Page 53Halftime Spectacles
Not even halftime will provide a respite this year from Super
Bowl hype. The mid-game spectacle -- featuring fireworks, 100
motorcycles and the world's largest card trick -- will be telecast,
for the first time ever, in 3-D. Two commercials for diet Coke, one
starring British singer George Michael, will also pop out at
viewers in 3-D. A similar gimmick was tried early this month on
three Fox stations during the Rose Parade, but this marks its
network-TV debut.
Through retailers, Coca-Cola is distributing 20 million pairs
of cardboard glasses for the event. But unspectacled viewers will
not see a blurry image, as they did with the '50s technology, used
in mo-vies like House of Wax. A new process, Nuoptix 3D, uses
regular cameras and delivers a normal picture. The illusion of
depth is created by different-color lenses in the glasses, which
transmit the image 16 milliseconds slower to the right eye than to
the- left. One catch: to get the 3-D effect, there has to be
constant motion on the screen. So even if the game slows to a
crawl, the halftime action will be fast and furious.