Wednesday 20 October 2010

Next generation of entertainment?

I was browsing through youtube when I came across this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoEBJfI8kDw&feature=related

It's nowhere near refined enough to be deemed worthy for industry standards, but for the average user wanting (for some reason) to perform a 3d scan on any object, the concept is brilliant.

Kinda doesn't relate too much, but it made me wonder if one day there'll be movies where we can choose to virtually move around in the environment. I think that may just be the next step from 3D technology. Providing that computers (especially graphics performance) become much more powerful in the future, I guess that in theory, we could have interactive animated films where we get to control what and how we see all the scenes. Don't know how well that'd go down with directors though. I guess it could always be an 'option' as oppose to the main function of the film.

Imagine watching some scenes from Avatar in a different perspective, possibly just sitting there staring into the Pandoran landscape. Combined with 3D technology, I think this experience could be a hell of a lot better than conventional cinema, if the developers design the interface correctly. With most if not all teenagers and younger adults these days being able to use a computer's interface, it wouldn't seem silly to introduce some sort of joypad or controlling device which the user moves to control their perspective of the film, in time for this sort of technology's release.

Something to think about. Hope nobody's already thought of this, lol.

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