PORTABLE APPARATUS FOR EXPERIENCING SIMULATIVE SPACE FLIGHT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a participant with a simulative space flight with presence through three senses of the visual sense, the auditory sense, and the sense of floating body, by providing an existing pool with a liquid crystal projector and a screen which can be easily carried and which project a three-dimensional stereographic picture, a pair of polarizing glasses for watching it, several speakers for providing a stereophonic sound effect, and a ring float, in order to realizing the simulative space experience with the presence without large-scale facilities, by solving the drawbacks of the prior arts that a conventional planetarium or a space center can only provide a visual experience without the presence by a two-dimensional picture, in experiencing the simulative space flight on the earth, and that the large-scale facilities are required for showing the picture. SOLUTION: The simulative space flight with the presence is provided by utilizing the existing pool without newly constructing the large-scale facilities, by the sense of floating body which is obtained by wearing the ring float and floating on one's back, the effect of the visual sense through the three-dimensional space picture projected on the screen by the portable liquid crystal projector which is temporarily installed outside the pool, and the effect of the auditory sense by the plurality of speakers which generate the stereophonic sound effect. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO