From: gavand01@ulkyvx.bitnet
Subject: Re: Time Traveller
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1991 22:20:47 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville


>In article <1991Sep21.055551.4136@milton.u.washington.edu>, jim@visix.com
>(Jim Edwards-Hewitt) writes:
>
>
>>   As a side note, can anyone explain Sega's new video game called "Time
>> Traveller"?  If you have not seen it, it sports an image that appears to
>> be floating in the air.  They call it a hologram but it is more like a
>> two dimensional field without any visible support.
>
>It uses a curved mirror to reflect the display (which is out of sight),
>which creates a virtual image in front of the mirror.
>
>        -- Jim Edwards-Hewitt
>
And the mirrored image was originally created by filming live actors and those
images are inserted by matting them in.

--Gary Van Den Heuvel