maybe, but for the last half decade nearly my entire social circle cannot sit still for movies and just won't go out of their way to do it anymore. I'm big into cinema, but they are not. Treating this like the fidget-spinning surrogate that a large portion of the population relies upon could potentially make it a hit for some viewing experiences. Its a thesis I would pursue, for money, at least.
This would make it unbearable to watch a movie with anyone else, so it doesn’t really solve the social issue. But even if you’re watching it alone, it only really makes sense if the movie itself takes advantage of it in some interesting way, which starts to get into game territory. It wouldn’t even work for the most part: how do you deal with cuts and changes of scenery? It makes no sense in the context of a movie; what you’re looking for is a game and we can already do that.
Maybe you could have it work as a documentary (good luck getting a bored social group to go for that) or a virtual tour, but we already have 3D interactions of those too.
We’ve had tons of movie viewing experiments and ultimately always go back to the tried and true 2D screen, with the bolder ideas being relegated mostly to the domain of theme park gimmicks. Which are interesting in their own right, but don’t survive on their own.
yes, my main use case would be for fidgeters solo, just like those Team ICO games
> how do you deal with cuts and changes of scenery?
the same way the games did it. by doing nothing special at all and retaining the same functionality. it really depends on how this 4D reconstruction works before I could say it uniquely adversely affects the experience
for the most part what's interesting to me is that the overhead costs seem low enough not to care about random things big studios did at great expense with no way to justify the market appeal. its either a portfolio piece or 1,000 monhtly users supporting my lifestyle indefinitely.
