Come Visit Salt Lake City; Come Visit the Whole World

   The illuminated, interactive tunnel. I'm polishing up an invention I offered up months ago, thinking to make it even better. Now, I'll have the participants walk the tunnel with 4D glasses on, and the tunnel will have images on both sides, as well as above and beneath, with the top being rounded. It will offer the highest level of visual experience possible. If you want art that you can walk through and be a part of, nothing will equal this. We are not talking projected images that lose their focus when scattered by laser lights. No, we are talking high-definition, glowing, electronic billboard-type images.
   With the tunnel being just wide enough for you to pass through. The floor could be made of glass, so the the images could be on an wall extending downward, adding depth when scenery is cast below. Add the the 3D glasses, and you are literally there in the world's most real-like artificial environment, walking through . . .
 You shout, "The Narrows," and you are traversing through that wonder at Zions National Park.
  You shout, "Mount Timpanogos Cave," and you are right in that cave.
   You shout, "Top of Mount Olympus," and you are there, looking down on the glimmering lights of the city, the view being in some ways perhaps more up-close dramatic than it is in real life.
   You yell, "Jump," and suddenly it is as if you just jumped off the cliff and are free-falling down, till a parachute pops out above and eases you to the ground.
   All the best sites and experiences of Utah would be offered, in order to tout them. But the interactive tunnel would also offer up experiences from around the world. View Mount Kilimanjaro as if you were there. See the Pyramids. Go any place in the world you like.
    Oh, and the interaction of the walls is not limited to reacting to your voice. You see flowers and you reach out to pick them and they break from their stems and it almost seems (as far as your sight is concerned) they are, indeed, right in your grasp. Touch the sides of the tunnel, and the clouds you touch swirl away.
   The world's greatest visual experience. All the tourist experiences the world can offer, all in one place, for the taking in a single night. Tell me, this would not be a wonderful tourist attraction, one not worthy of coming to Utah to see.
   I'd like to see Utah develop a tourist zone near the airport, and this would be part of it.  I don't know of any city that utilizes land near its airport in this fashion, creating tourist attractions, but it seems the logically best location. "Location, location, location," it is said, and it is also said that convenience sells. Tourism can be increased by using the same principles. Salt Lake it fortunate, then, for much of the land out near the Salt Lake, next to the airport, remains available. Why not utilize it for its highest possible use?
   As for the interactive, illuminated, living-experience tunnels? The promos could read: "Come visit Salt Lake City. Come visit the whole world."
(Blog edited 3/23/16 and 3/26/16)