I have been reading about the release of Peter Jackson's - The Hobbit which has been filmed in full 48fps 3D. Some critics say that it gives a feeling of a 'home movie' due to the quality of the image showing warts and all and not being able to hide the fake sets and fake clothing etc, whilst others waxed lyrical about the feeling of 'being there'. Then there's James Cameron explaining that the second Avatar movie will be filmed in 60fps 3D. Add to this that Dolby is starting to roll out its 'Atmos Sound System' over the next 12 months, it takes me back to a film released in 1983 Starring Natalie Wood and Christopher Walken called 'Brainstorm'. It's about a science lab, creating a technology that records your brain waves, so at a later date, a third party can have that brain wave pattern pushed into their brain, to make the user feel like that were experiencing what the original person had experienced. It blew me away when I first watched it(I was only fourteen and unfortunately the film has not aged so well). But with the new technologies arriving by the day, then a full immersive experience could be just around the corner. In fact website http://www.alphanerd.me/explains about technologies being explored that read brain signals and records them. So as the small steps move forward towards these technologies, a little alarm bell keeps going off at the back of my head. What with the fight over global domination by Google and Facebook, where the winner will control not just all your personal details but also your preferences, then if this technology gets in their hands they could be forcing consumer related products into our head. There's an old adage that goes on about life imitating art, but here we have some more evidence that the novel 1984 by George Orwell is closer to reality than we all think.
On a happier note....how cool will it be to actually experience somebody elses mind...wow !!!
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