msb@lsuc.UUCP (08/28/85)
There have been some articles in the news recently about a tourist attraction soon to be opening in Toronto, and I thought I'd summarize them for the benefit of interested readers who missed them. What this will be is a simulation of commercial space travel, complete with window dressing like simulated vaccinations and "off-world passports". The highlight, the actual "trip", will give you and your fellow "travelers" about 20 minutes of "travel" in a SIMULATOR adapted from those used for training airline pilots (and railway drivers). Visual effects will be produced using a process that I take to be Douglas Trumbull's Showscan, which was discussed in net.movies a while ago: 70 mm film (I think), projected at 60 frames a second for extra realism. Admission will be about $7. Sounds like fun to me. I'm planning to try it. The location is the base of the CN Tower in Toronto; they are planning to open in "a few" weeks. All this information is from memory, but I don't think I've made any substantial errors. I hope ont.events is not too inappropriate; I don't consider that this is of interest to space and movie enthusiasts only. Mark Brader