On our show, two weeks ago, I wrote a story about 3-D being the way that we will be viewing all video content within the next 5 to 10 years. My prediction was met with just a hint of skepticism from some of my colleagues. Now you will see why I made such a monumental forecast.
A new way of seeing free floating video from 360 degree angles, be it movie or CGI content, is not on the horizon, it is already here.
Check out how you will soon be viewing movies, video games and television.
It’s certainly neat, but I still don’t see us going to see movies created to float within that thing. I mean, if you look at the video, you’ve got floating people and one little clip of a car with a cityscape behind it.
You can’t have a movie with just floating people. Well, you could, I guess, there are plays that are basically done that way, but most movies aren’t. They have a setting that’s important to what’s being shown. And to show that on this thing, it would be like placing people in a diorama. We’d have to see the edges of the space they’re in. There could be no walls, because then one angle blocks your view.
The other way you can have 3D movies is the holodeck way, where the setting envelopes the watcher. And if you were to make a movie that way, you would have to plan in angles and shots for a stationary watcher to experience. Sometimes what you can’t see is as important as what you can. And if one seat or area makes the movie better or worse based on what side of the characters you can see… that seems like it would be a tough thing to handle.
This is simply a prototype. It will be developed differently for theaters and home entertainment consoles. It’s still a few years away. We are witnessing its birth.
But I don’t get how you’d address some of the things I brought up… unless you are actually picturing a holodeck.
That is what this device does – sort of a mini-holodeck, except you watch it like a TV or movie and you don’t actually participate like on Star Trek: TNG. That I’m sure will be the next step, but, no doubt, long after I’m dead.
Right, but so long as you’re watching it from the outside and not “in” what you’re seeing, you’ve still got 4 empty walls with actors dancing around inside.
Not sure how that will be resolved, but I’m sure it will be. Where’s Wesley Crusher when you need him? 😉