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Show The Salt Lake Tribune BUSINESS Sunday, January 24, 1999 Coming Soon: Space Travel Without Rockets movieI've ever seen.” StarRider’s final component is the audience-participation tem, which enables viewers to interact with the show. It allows the StarRider combines three dis. tinct computer technologies to create Adler's star show, said Philip Hymer, E & S director of show's host to project multiple- The company’s Digistar II digi- choice questions about space on the dome, which membersof the engineering tal planetariumsystem is used to @ Continued from E-1 audience answer, watching their respoases appear overhead. project nearly 10,000 stars and “wire-frame diagrams through a The systemalso enables them to eve lens. Comput- rings that “garland Saturn like a stunning necklace. ‘cording to thé Show’s narrative ‘At onepoint, patrons land on the surface of Mars. Theyare di- rected to a five-point control pad are and software and display star motior positionsinstantly A real-time, computer-generated, 3D graphics projection system on the armrests of their seats they use to maneuver through the s up StarRider’s second component. It relies on a powerful image-generating computerto planet's canyons, searching for life forms, ar Wars'’-style. render andproject planetary im. ages so quickly that when audi. Whenthey maneuverpoorly. they crash into the canyonwalls with a loud bang. ‘The audiences love it. They really get into it,’ said Paul Knap- penberger, Adler's president. “I overheard a group of seventh graders as they were leaving the show saying, “That is the coolest instantaneously, just and digital capabilities show it doesn’t matter, because the entire group is directing the movement,” Hymersaid. “It's a team approach.” Interactivity is an important discriminator for StarRider, be- causeit distinguishes the product that used in StarRiderone day be- ing employed widelyin entertaii ment venues, including in movie theaters. “Cinemaisin the early stages of going digital,” Oyler said, adding theaters one day may simply theaters and media services at Exploration Placein Wichita, Kan. Exploration Place will begin installation of a StarRider system this fall. It has not announced downloadfilms froma satellite by showit will offer Cyberdome opens punching a code into a computer to crack the film’s encryption. next spring, except to say it will not bea siar show, For that reason, E & S’s enter- tainment-related products will loans and others; 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. . 100 South, Salt Lake City no cost. Call 741-4200 Health Care Forum. The Health Care Committeeof the Salt International Planetarium Society, agrees with Oyler’s assessmene of the technology’s potential. “We're at the beginning of a trend thatwill grow to a large ex- tent,” he said. “Most theaters eventually will install this type of technology.” Preferred Traveler Bonus Program Stay with us 10 times and receive your choice of one of the following items FREE Self Parking $4.60/day Seminar. TheSalt Lake 50 S. Redwood Road (801) 355-PARK Change the Way You Do Business; 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.; Chamber office. 175 400 South, Suite 600. Salt LakeCity; cost 7 Notvalid with anyother offers. 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Classes run onfrom 6:30 to P Forum: 3:30p.m. to§ pam. 400 South, Salt LakeCity Call 328-5058 most recent fiscal year reached as they r said experienceis incredibly ersive,” hesaid. “It’s asifthe dome disappears. at Utah Valley State College in UUESBAY, i Small Business Loans. Utah Technology Finance Corp. will conduct an orientation onbusi ness loans available from federal, state and local sources, including SBA Microloan, Salt Lake County ates about two-thirds ofits reve- ucts, he said. E & S's sales in the would in actual space travel WEEKLY PLANNER Business make happen,” he said. E & S’s Oyler agrees. He foresees technology like promise for other applications, what type of when its new becomeincreasingly important to the company, which now genernue from flight-simulation prod- “Anything you can dreamofvisually op a domedscreen you can StarRider’s real-time nature said Martin Ratcliffe, director of could be used to travel within the human body, or descend through geological layers of prehistoric time. producer. “Because images used in the showare generated by computers in real time, they can vary with each viewing,” he said maneuver collectively through “If you don’t do well individual- Ratcliffe said the technology Brian Sullivan, an E & S associate the imagery, as occurs when they “land” on Mars and careen through canyons, looking for life. ly, ence members “zoom” past a comet or planet circling the sun the images change smoothly and fromothers used to create planetarium shows that do not change from oneviewingto the next, said $12 for pre-registered members or $15 at the door, or $25 for nonmembers. 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