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Get ready for a 3-D view of Dome blast
Microsoft, Canadian partner to present a live Webcast
Friday, March 3, 2000
By DAN RICHMAN
Coming soon to your personal computer: the Kingdome implosion, safe, up-close . . . and in 3-D!
No need to brave the dust, noise and flying chunks of concrete that may result from the controlled destruction of the city's 24-year-old domed stadium.
Between 8 and 9 a.m. on either March 19 or March 26 -- the exact date will be set next week -- Microsoft and a partner company will team up to provide a live, 3-D Webcast of the building's collapse. Why, you'll almost taste the billowing cloud as the 110,000-ton building comes crashing down!
As a safety measure, Seattle police and fire officials are urging people not to come to the site on the day of the implosion. And watching on the Internet offers advantages that the plentiful TV coverage won't be able to match.
By visiting www.windowsmedia.com/preview/kingdome, Internet lookie-loos can get a free pair of those weird cardboard-framed, red-and-green-lens glasses, necessary to view the event in 3-D. Viewers without glasses can witness the event in two dimensions.
Of course, all will need Windows Media Player, a free piece of Microsoft software, to be running on their PCs. The player can be downloaded from that site.
Microsoft joined for the event with Isee3D of Burnaby, B.C., which will supply special cameras inside and outside the dome and encoding systems that convert images to 3-D.
Those who can't wait to see the largest concrete dome on Earth transformed into rubble can use their new toys to view archived clips of the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, the Dr Pepper factory in Baltimore and three other implosions.
P-I reporter Robert Jamieson Jr. contributed to this report.
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