This evening I went to see a multimedia show in the really great dome in Montreal at the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Arts Technologiques. The dome is fifty feet across, and it is a thing of wonder.<\/p>\n
There are no chairs in the dome. Instead, the floor is covered with beanbags.<\/p>\n
When you come in, you just pick the nearest open spot and lie back to watch the show. I am a friend of one of the artists, so I came early and was able to pick my spot.<\/p>\n
So for the first time in my life I achieved a childhood dream: I got to sit in the very center of the dome. Always before I had to sit off to one side or another, and I had always wondered what it would be like to sit dead center.<\/p>\n
One of the great things about the exact center of a dome is that when you start to talk, your voice sounds very strange. The sound of your voice takes 50 milliseconds (1\/20 second) to reach the dome surface and then return to you, and that happens the same way in all directions.<\/p>\n
So it sounds like your voice is talking back to you 1\/20 second after anything you say. It is a strange and wonderful sensation. If you’ve never tried to stand in the center of a dome, I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n
Of course the best part was that I got an undistorted view of everything they showed. It was wonderful, and now I can day that I have fulfilled my childhood dream of watching a show from the very center of a dome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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