- Spectravision
"SpectraVision" is the reflected projection of a simulated, moving hologram-like character into three-dimensional space.
In 1862, 'Professor' John Henry Pepper of London's Royal Polytechnic Institution produced a theatrical ghost by using reflected projection. Placing an actor below the theatre stage, out of the audience’s view, he illuminated the man with a lamp. A sheet of glass on stage, angled towards the actor picked up his ghostly reflection. When the lamp was doused, the `ghost’ disappeared. The technique became generically known as "Pepper's Ghost"
In 1992, [http://www.shirleyspectra.com.au The Shirley Spectra Australia Pty Ltd] , a Sydney-based company specialising in electronic interpretation, reinvented the 130-year old technique with remarkable results. Based on the original “Pepper’s Ghost” principles, the company successfully produced a three-dimensional image of an actor inside a display case, but markedly different from the original `ghost’.
Not only does today’s 25cm character talk it also walks around the interior of the case and interacts accurately with real objects and artefacts. Having dramatically refined the technique, The Shirley Spectra renamed it “SpectraVision.”
The magic of this interpretive medium is its mixture of the real with the surreal, which creates an incredible optical illusion. [http://www.shirleyspectra.com.au/HanYang_Frame-1.htm Hanyang Mausoleum Display]
Spectravision, later renamed
Spectravideo , is a video game company that developed and published games for theAtari 2600 ,ColecoVision , andCommodore VIC-20 .'SpectraVision' was also the name for [http://oncommand.com OnCommand] corporation's hotel cable television enterprise in the U.S.. It gained notoriety in the early 1990s for showing pay-per-view adult movies in which the male genitalia was blurred out. These movies were always billed to the room only as 'movie'. SpectraVision was a hotel-based system using industrial VCRs and [http://www.echelon.com Echelon] 's
LonWorks for control and billing. SpectraVision lost favor to satellite-based systems in the mid-1990s. The service was lampooned in the 1994 movieTommy Boy . [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114694/quotes Tommy Boy (1995) - Memorable quotes ] ]References
External links
* [http://games.ign.com/objects/025/025496.html IGN listing of games made by Spectravision]
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