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Title: How a Movie Theater Should Be Designed
Post by: rpm on June 28, 2012, 04:12:20 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/CKxlL.jpg)
You'll never guess who came up with it.
Title: Re: How a Movie Theater Should Be Designed
Post by: Wiley on June 28, 2012, 04:16:57 PM
Neat idea.  Wonder if it would cause more vertigo in some people.  I'm going to guess it was thought up by Bono.

Wiley.
Title: Re: How a Movie Theater Should Be Designed
Post by: Selino631 on June 28, 2012, 04:43:47 PM
that not necessarily a bad idea, but would be a pain tho while trying to eat or drink.

thats why i prefer Stadium seating like the Alamo draft house (serves dinner too!)  :aok
Title: Re: How a Movie Theater Should Be Designed
Post by: 100Coogn on June 28, 2012, 07:04:00 PM
Seems like you'd have to sit up to eat popcorn or drink a beverage.
    
(http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af59/vestaxpro/Joker_popcorn.gif)
Coogan

{edit} I just noticed Selino631's post above, which pretty much asks the same thing as mine...
Title: Re: How a Movie Theater Should Be Designed
Post by: kotrenin on June 28, 2012, 08:09:07 PM
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has an Omnimax Theater which has seating like this. The screen is also domed to give you that surround vision feel and it plays imax films. also the screen is "porous" or like a matrix of holes and the sound system is behind it and plays like a THX system, matching the location of the sound with the location of the source on the screen.
 
Vertigo, yes. Back in '87 when I was in the 4th grade we went there for a field trip to watch a double feature on the "Grand Canyon" and "Urban Canyons" in between the 2 they played a weird little 1 minute time warp video of colored shapes flying towards you. The effect made you feel like you were sliding out of the top of the seat and several of us became ill. Also the camera work in the films involved a lot of cameras mounted on flying vehicles of some sort and every time they flew over an edge you "felt" the weightlessness of free falling.
Title: Re: How a Movie Theater Should Be Designed
Post by: rpm on June 28, 2012, 08:37:38 PM
The designer:
(http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/MI-AX820_CUBAN_G_20090717131418.jpg)
Title: Re: How a Movie Theater Should Be Designed
Post by: Melvin on June 28, 2012, 08:40:23 PM
Quote from: kotrenin on June 28, 2012, 08:09:07 PM
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has an Omnimax Theater which has seating like this.

Yep, saw a roller coaster film there when it first opened.


I think the Cube was probably 16 at the time so...   :rolleyes:
Title: Re: How a Movie Theater Should Be Designed
Post by: MaSonZ on June 28, 2012, 08:45:21 PM
depending on the size of the screen, it would be a royal PITA to support it to the ceiling....no?
Title: Re: How a Movie Theater Should Be Designed
Post by: Melvin on June 28, 2012, 08:48:47 PM
The Cube ain't got nothin' on this...


http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/omnimax-3d-theater/