What is the next evolutionary step for cinema? Is there one?

[wonderer99]

The invention of motion pictures
Talkies
Colour
Home movie consumption
Computer generated imagery.

These are, for me, the definitive major points in which cinema shifted. When how we saw things fundamentally changed. I guess many would add 3D to the list but it hasn't been adopted or consumed by the masses everyday.

Do you think there is anything that can change fundamentally now? There are always going ro be technological upgrades, IMAX, HFR etc but they don't change anything fundamentally, they just improve/alter what we already have.

Have we done it all?

[DR Herbert West]

Holodeck movies.

[Lee A Stewart]

Are you looking for a leap or will a big step suffice?

Glasses Free 3D

[moreorless]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Holodeck movies.

[RossyG]

At home, AI scanning your body and putting you into films.

In the cinema, possibly glasses-free 180-degree 3D. This would be better suited to the type of documentaries iMax used to make about the natural world, architecture, space travel etc. But I bet Cameron would use it.

[Al_The_Strange]

When Neuralink starts wide-spread brain implants, we can have movies directly pumped into our heads, and we'll be able to live the movies like it's some kind of Matrix program. Probably.

When this happens, I totally plan to nope out of it completely.

[Martoto]

Movies where people actually say "goodbye" before ending a telephone call. At least once. It sometimes takes several attempts in real life.

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by Martoto

Movies where people actually say "goodbye" before ending a telephone call. At least once. It sometimes takes several attempts in real life.

1:02:05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1JARazf3Iw

The only one I can think of.

[Walter Kafka]

It better have some female nudity.

[Martoto]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

1:02:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1JARazf3Iw

The only one I can think of.

Good lad.

[NARMAK]

The evolution of the cinema experience has now got moving 4D seats but ultimately the majority of that stuff all still feels like a gimmick at times too. I think glasses free 3D will probably become a decently popular option assuming it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to experience at home or cinema.

I think ridiculously revolutionary changes in how to experience movies would require a fundamental and extremely expensive change to film making in the first place. Especially when you consider that to be "in the movie" would require effort to film from a complete 360 degrees around environment to allow people to move around and with etc.

I just don't think it would be anything more than a niche, but i do see a "different" kind of experience becoming available at cinemas if they open up to it alongside the traditional.

[moreorless]

I'm guessing there will be another attempt at home 3D if they can pull it off without the glasses somehow.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by wonderer99

the invention of motion pictures
talkies
colour
home movie consumption
computer generated imagery.

These are, for me, the definitive major points in which cinema shifted. When how we saw things fundamentally changed. I guess many would add 3d to the list but it hasn't been adopted or consumed by the masses everyday.

Do you think there is anything that can change fundamentally now? There are always going ro be technological upgrades, imax, hfr etc but they don't change anything fundamentally, they just improve/alter what we already have.

Have we done it all?

vr

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by moreorless

I'm guessing there will be another attempt at home 3D if they can pull it off without the glasses somehow.

I am surprised someone is not working on Contact Lenses for 3D.

[Member-866753]

Big-budget interactive movies where you can "choose" what happens.

3D without glasses.

One I hate but there will be a day where James Dean and Marilyn Monroe star in an action movie together.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by AspiringMinimalist

Big-budget interactive movies where you can "choose" what happens.

3D without glasses.

One I hate but there will be a day where James Dean and Marilyn Monroe star in an action movie together.

I had thought choose your adventure would have been more of a thing after Netflix did it a few times.

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

Are you looking for a leap or will a big step suffice?

Glasses Free 3D

This is really what it needs to be IMO. If they can figure it out in an affordable way that works for both the theaters and at home, this will be the next big thing. We started off with black and white, no sound. Then got sound. Then got color. Now we have enhanced color and dynamic range plus incredible detail; I'm not sure there is anything further to go on that front. The next step is true stereoscopy without requiring devices or causing headaches. It seems like a really big hill to climb, though, almost insurmountable - as every person watching has a slightly different perspective/offset.

I don't see tech like AR/VR where you need to wear an expensive contraption on your head as sustainable. Even a fairly cheap light contraption like 3D glasses were enough to put people off from that tech eventually.

[murphywmm]

AI-generated actors.
You can have a movie star that never ages.

[Jay H.]

I'd like to see an invention where the people in the movie can detect when someone in the theater is messing with their phone. Imagine it: Tom Cruise is about to jump across the Grand Canyon on a skateboard, the audience is on the edge of their seat, and then he stops, looks right at the person playing with their phone, and says "I'm not going to continue until you put that thing away".

All right, scientists. You have your assignment. Thrill me!

[L.J.]

Not a good one, see the next big thing to be AI scripts and actors. Expensive looking film made cheap. If this happens I'm out. Also out on an earlier mention of a chip in the head.