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3D movies have become increasingly popular as moviegoers have been swarming to movie theaters to place plastic 3D glasses over their peepers to instantly feel like they’re right in the middle of a film. But providing only a 3D experience in films is so late 2000s as a cinema chain in Japan will soon be introducing a 4D movie theater experience.
Japanese cinema chain Korona World will be opening the country’s first full-body, immersive 4D movie theater on April 26. The theaters will be equipped with 4DX technology which adds motion, humidity, aromas, strobes, bubbles and additional effects while its customers are watching a film. Each seat will be able to move in sync with the action on the movie screen, even going as far as to provide jolts to the customer during intense action scenes. (more…)
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Feb 28
The bad news: just as much of the world is starting to get excited about the prospects of 3D printing, science is moving on to the world of 4D. The good news: in the future, you might not have to assemble that Ikea chair yourself. “4D printing” is the term cientists are using to refer to a technology that MIT’s Skylar Tibbits talked up during a recent TED appearance. The fourth “d” here is time, referring to an object that, once printed, is capable of changing shape (over time, naturally).
“Essentially the printing is nothing new,” Tibbits told the BBC. “It is about what happens after.” So far the concept has been demonstrated with thin strands of plastic, which, once added to water, form into a predetermined shape, using energy from the absorption. Suggested future applications involve furniture, pipes, bikes and buildings. First, however, scientists will have to demonstrate the technology on a larger structure, of course, and they’ll explore the possibility of other energy sources, like heat, sound and vibration.
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Sep 29
Alt-week 9.29.12: 3D pictures of the moon, 4D clocks and laser-controlled worms
Posted in: Today's ChiliAlt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.
Dimensions, they’re like buses. You wait for ages, and then three come along at once. And then another one right after that. While that might be about where the analogy ends, this week sees us off to the moon, where we then leap from the third, right into the fourth. Once there, we’ll learn how we could eventually be controlled by lasers, before getting up close and personal with a 300 million-year old bug. Sound like some sort of psychedelic dream? Better than that, this is alt-week.
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Aug 18
Computer animation may be a lot better than it used to be, but it’s been around for quite a while. This is an example of one of the older bits, dating way back to 1965, and it features some 4D shapes. Oh, and it’s also in 3D. Just cross your eyes. More »
Jul 09
4D is a term used to describe an entertainment system that combines 3D technology with physical effects. In a move to attract more people into cinemas, South Korean conglomerate CJ Group is finalizing a deal to install over 200 4D theaters within five years in Los Angeles, New York, and other major cities in the U.S . So far , the company has been quite successful in its homeland, as well as in Thailand and Mexico. CJ Group operates the largest theater chain in Asia and it has already installed a laboratory near Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood to demo and promote its 4DX system.
The 4DX system is equipped with moving seats, nozzles that spray water, mist, bubbles, air and odors from a collection of 1,000 scents – ranging from rose garden to gunpowder – and up to 240 seats. Also, giant fans and strobe lights are installed as well to simulate real weather conditions. “Theaters need to find new ways to bring people back to the multiplex and away from their couches, and this is one way of doing that,” Chief Operating Officer for the Los Angeles lab of CJ 4DPlex, Theodore Kim, said.
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Jul 09
4D technology coming to 200 US cinemas to help you feel and smell the action
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Booming 64-track soundtrack at the cinema making you yawn? Already jaded about 4K , 3D and high frame-rates? If so, a company called CJ Group out of Korea may be able to blast you from your stupor — it’s bringing so-called 4D to nearly 200 theaters stateside. That extra ‘D’ won’t let you warp spacetime, but instead will bring your other senses into play with seats that move and thump, smells from things like flowers or gunpowder, and artificial wind, rain and lightening. All that extra stimulation could bump the freight of a seat by around eight bucks, and movie house owners will need to shell out half of the $2 million cost to retrofit each salon. But CJ Group claims it’s been hugely popular in markets like Asia and Mexico, so theaters there have quickly recouped the cost. Of course, you wouldn’t want all that strang and durm on certain films, but lots of cinematic squealers could use a good dose of extra lipstick.
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