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- <text id=89TT0215>
- <title>
- Jan. 23, 1989: Halftime Spectacles
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 23, 1989 Barbara Bush:The Silver Fox
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- SPORT, Page 53
- Halftime Spectacles
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- <p> Not even halftime will provide a respite this year from
- Super Bowl hype. The mid-game spectacle -- featuring fireworks,
- 100 motorcycles and the world's largest card trick -- will be
- telecast, for the first time ever, in 3-D. Two commercials for
- diet Coke, one starring British singer George Michael, will
- also pop out at viewers in 3-D. A similar gimmick was tried
- early this month on three Fox stations during the Rose Parade,
- but this marks its network-TV debut.
- </p>
- <p> Through retailers, Coca-Cola is distributing 20 million
- pairs of cardboard glasses for the event. But unspectacled
- viewers will not see a blurry image, as they did with the '50s
- technology, used in mo-vies like House of Wax. A new process,
- Nuoptix 3D, uses regular cameras and delivers a normal picture.
- The illusion of depth is created by different-color lenses in
- the glasses, which transmit the image 16 milliseconds slower to
- the right eye than to the left. One catch: to get the 3-D
- effect, there has to be constant motion on the screen. So even
- if the game slows to a crawl, the halftime action will be fast
- and furious.
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- </body></article>
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