simulator makes local news

Buck Murdock writes:

And yet you're running Windows.

Exactly.

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Buck Murdock writes:

No, it isn't. ActiveX is insecure. Flash is fine.

Flash is implemented using ActiveX. Even non-ActiveX implementations
of Flash are insecure, however.

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gatt wrote:
http://www.katu.com currently has a video story about the simulator that
my
instructor just installed. Haven't tried it yet, but it looks amazing.


Slow news day in Oregon, huh?

Apparently. Now that all the search and rescue hype has concluded, the
biggest news here besides the storms and flooding is a sewer truck that fell
in a sinkhole.

-c

http://gorgewindsinc.com/simulator.html

I wonder how they project the "world" on a curved screen? It's hard to
tell how many projectors they've got going, from that pic.
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("Jay Honeck" wrote)
I wonder how they project the "world" on a curved screen? It's hard to
tell how many projectors they've got going, from that pic.


I count three. (?)


Montblack

Jay Honeck writes:

I wonder how they project the "world" on a curved screen? It's hard to
tell how many projectors they've got going, from that pic.

I see three projectors. Unless they have very special lenses indeed,
I don't see how they can project clear images onto curved screens.

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I see three projectors. Unless they have very special lenses indeed,
I don't see how they can project clear images onto curved screens.

Setting up the over-lap between the screens so that it doesn't look
weird must be a tricky affair, indeed.

(Gears turning...where can I mount a curved screen? Whey can I even
*buy* a curved screen? :-)
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I see three projectors. Unless they have very special lenses indeed,
I don't see how they can project clear images onto curved screens.

Setting up the over-lap between the screens so that it doesn't look
weird must be a tricky affair, indeed.

(Gears turning...where can I mount a curved screen? Whey can I even
*buy* a curved screen? :-)
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Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

The biggest problem should be eliminating "keystoning" so that the overlap
can be eliminated; and more expensive projectors should include that
adjustment. Then the unused area, after having eliminated the overlap,
should just appear as a dark vertical line.

I didn't spend enough time to look at the specifics of the simulator used in
the clip; but the annunced identified it as a Frasca TdruFlite simuator and
the Frasca website: http://www.frasca.com/ with the display options shown
at
http://www.frasca.com/web_pages/broc...%20systems.htm

Peter

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Jay Honeck wrote:
I see three projectors. Unless they have very special lenses indeed,
I don't see how they can project clear images onto curved screens.

There is fancy stuff you can do with the video feed before sending
it to a standard projector, but I don't know how it is done. I
haven't played with this kind of thing in years, and that was on
high end SGI stuff. We had a machine in the lab that was driving
sixteen displays. That was a fun machine to play a flight sim on.

(Gears turning...where can I mount a curved screen? Whey can I even
*buy* a curved screen? :-)

After you get the curved screen, you'll be looking for the next
upgrade. Why not just skip a few steps and build an IMAX dome
theater at the hotel?

John
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After you get the curved screen, you'll be looking for the next
upgrade.

Yanno, take a few of the aircraft parts that get donated to you and
dummy up a real cockpit. Put relays behind the switches, and connect
them to the keyboard (or just take the keyboard apart and run wires).

Instant (heh) upgrade.

Jose
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