![]() But Disney's custom towers, each with the power of approximately 2,000 Pentium PCs, do. Its a device often employed in books, movies and TV shows. It appears there is a minimum amount of computational power needed for a seamless virtual world, and in 1994 a couple of PCs don't cut it. A magic carpet shows up in the Arabian Nights tales from the 1700s as mystical, and very romantic, means of transport. Each seat - three Onyxes, electronic saddle, and headmount - costs US$1.5 million. Magic Carpet Ride serves the Treasure Coast and other communities across the state of Florida, and across the country. This "realism" was achieved through brute computing power bought with brute money. Instead, Disney's magic-carpet ride is as richly colorful and smooth as the film itself. ![]() There are no lags, no jitters, no cartoony polygons, no low-res blues - all the problems that have plagued mass-market virtual reality rides so far are gone. ![]() (Each guest rides alone in a separate world.) The goal is to find the scarab that leads to the lamp, using clues encountered along the way. Guests can zoom down to the street or into rooms to interact with characters that respond to the guests' movements and decisions. Magic Carpet Bus Look up the Magic Carpet Bus schedule and ticket prices. An airplane-like control bar moves the carpet through a lush, seamless world. A Enfield Transit Dial-A-Ride The mission of the Enfield Dial-A-Ride program is to provide affordable in-town rides to residents 60 plus or disabled. A "guest" (Disney's term for a paying customer) sits in the rocking, carpeted saddle wearing the most comfortable headset yet made. The ride simulates a magic-carpet flight over and through the bazaars, oases, painted hallways, and underground tombs in Aladdin's world. Using three Silicon Graphics Onyx computers stacked into one refrigerator-sized tower, a custom-fabricated headmounted video and audio helmet, a custom-designed kinetic saddle with steering stick, and a lot of proprietary software, Disney made a virtual reality world that really works. Two years ago they made an offer to the animators who made Aladdin: you guys create a complete three-dimensional world for Aladdin, with the same hand-drawn quality as the movie, and we'll invent (no matter the cost) whatever hardware that's needed to transform your vision into a virtual world. ![]() The Imagineers, those experts on fun at The Walt Disney Company, decided to make virtual reality work for the masses. ![]()
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