Mission: SPACE - Amazing Lenticular 3D Display?

[Syntho_Magnetic]

I've searched the forums, Google, and Wikipedia and I am shocked that the 3D display technology in Mission: SPACE has never been brought up.

Can anyone else confirm this so I don't think I'm completely crazy? But I'm pretty darn sure that the display is a 3D lenticular overlaid on an LCD!

I swear that there is a stereoscopic (depth-perception) effect at play, and it's the best place to use it. I heard rumors of a lenticular in Innoventions back in the 90's, but Mission: SPACE is the best place for it. Since the stereoscopic effect viewing angle is very limited, it is not applicable to the large 3D theatres. But it's the perfectly suited technology for Mission: SPACE since you have your own personal display and your head is pretty much locked in place.

I'm just shocked no one mentioned this perfect act of Imagineering before. I think it's one of the best parts of the attraction! :sohappy:

A little background for those not as familiar with 3D technologies: Lenticulars are a series of vertical lenses overlaid on a picture (to create animations when you move past them or to create 3D effects). Think of the stickers you sometimes got in Cracker Jacks.
I also noticed they had to put in some thought to the 3D medium in the Pirates of the Carribean game at DisneyQuest. Since you have 4 screens at very large angles, the lightweight polarized glasses of the theatres won't do. They have to use the synced shutter-type LCD goggles instead.

 

[joel_maxwell]

i have no idea... but you make a strong case for it (if you were selling the notion)

 

[clarksfan95]

I'm not even sure about this...but I would never site a reference such as wikipedia since I could go on there and make up whatever I wanted about a subject and people who wouldn't know better could read and believe it.

 

[MrNonacho]

While I'm not 100% positive, I'm pretty sure that M:S's Virtual Infinity Screens don't use much more than an HD flat panel display and a concave mirror.

 

[marni1971]

It is a stunning display. I was led to believe it is 2 LCD displays overlaid on eachother, the first being transparent where the `black` would be - a bit like chromakeying.

 

[ChrisFL]

I never noticed anything more than a regular mirrored image actually

 

[Syntho_Magnetic]

While I'm not 100% positive, I'm pretty sure that M:S's Virtual Infinity Screens don't use much more than an HD flat panel display and a concave mirror.

And as you note, Chris, yea, now that I think about it, the display did seem concave. Some sites do say it's to mimic a bubbled-out window.

I can't find a single thing on "Virtual Infinity Screens" except this page and one other vaguely mentioning some flight simulator. Yahoo has more responses, but they don't look relevant.

It is a stunning display. I was led to believe it is 2 LCD displays overlaid on eachother, the first being transparent where the `black` would be - a bit like chromakeying.

Wow, that sounds really complicated! Even more so than a simple lenticular. You couldn't directly backlight the first LCD then, it'd have to be exactly projected from the side so the second could show through. All the more I'd like to know who made this and how they made it if so. C'mon, where's the Popular Mechanics articles like with UoE back in the day? :shrug: Even the exact g-force is a secret.

Though if it is just some simple concave mirror and that's all, maybe that's why there is no mention.

For anyone riding it soon, could you do an experiment? I thought I tried this too to verify the stereoscopic effect (I love anything related to anaglyphs and such!) While in the ride, maybe at the tower waiting to blast-off, so you have a stationary reference, close one eye then the other and look for any occlusion differences between the two views.

Arg, maybe I am crazy then.