Latency

[mwynn]

LATENCY Official Trailer (2024) - YouTube

[VictoryAtNight]

Alexis Ren is about to debut her biggest role to date. The lifelong model stars opposite Sasha Luss (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) in Latency, a new feature film from Lionsgate that centers around Black Mirror-esque gaming equipment and the dangers that come after experimenting with it. Ren plays Jen, the best friend to Luss's Hana, a professional gamer who battles agoraphobia, a type of anxiety that instills a fear of leaving familiar environments. Hana is asked to trial that aforementioned gaming equipment, a system called The Omnia, which utilizes artificial intelligence to interpret the player's brain's electrical activity. Hana's risky usage on The Omnia paired with her agoraphobia leaves her experiencing a blurry line between her reality and subconscious.

"This is why I wanted to do this movie," Ren told ComicBook. "It's such a relevant conversation today with how technology is going to evolve. We already are seeing it with things like Neuralink and so many others. It's going to start to affect us in a much deeper way than I think we even realize. I hope that the audience can just ask themselves, 'Is the technology I'm using, am I using it or is it using me? Am I using it just because it's convenient or does it align with my values in life?'"

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/la...ng-technology/

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Latency (2024) Official Trailer - Sasha Luss, Alexis Ren - YouTube

I think this is the same trailer, but a better still frame image IMO.


Interesting idea and trailer. I wonder how she'll deal with her hallucinations or whatever is happening from the side effects of her situation and immersion into the AR Reality device.

For Alternative Reality (where you see the real world, like your room or home, but see digital images appear within the confines of it), there is a lot of potential for horror themed games, where monsters or ghosts can appear as you're walking through your own house. That makes this film really interesting to see how it could relate to nightmares, or those with mental illness dealing with AR or VR and how it can negatively or positively be applied or affect them.