Interactive 3D Game Coming To Movie Theatres This Summer

@armyofchuckness: Now interactive! Joystick control's Fry's left ear!

Griffehpoo

@brutek:

Yeh, wot the man said. But do you remember the flostation?

floman

Sounds like a dumb idea. Too many commercials before films these days anyway, now they want to put an interactive game up, along with the commercials and assorted previews (which is the only thing I care to see before a movie). They should just tell people to be in their seats 30 minutes before the film beginnings for all the crap.

The theater (theatre, sorry) should have cameras trained on the audience, feeding the video to monitors in the lobby.

Might be amusing.

taodude

@Hello Mister Walrus: I don't know what you look like, so I'm guessing it's Earthworm Jim.

taodude

This technology could easily be applied to porn.

3DDD, I mean 3D models, reacting to the audiences moods...

Enough said.

Logan5

@jcrockerman: Ah yes, there was a time that I went to the Alamo Drafthouse about every other weekend. It's pretty spectacular having them around not only for the drinks, but for the guest appearances, independent films, and cult classics.

KineticRocketFireBalls

All I have to say is...

"Meh..."

Also, Theaters are getting old and the ones around here are most likely not going to have this... So. Meh.

I can see where this is going. In a theater near you an interactive 3D pr0n film that the audience can get involved in...

@Hello Mister Walrus: The spaceship launches cows as it's primary weapon~

To see Calculon analyze his finances, press B.

@SewerShark: Oh... beat me to the punch line!

aec007

@rainsfather: I feel your pain... always sit in the back, it's usually not as bad.

This game will promote an apartheid between 2 factions of viewers.

SewerShark

@Hello Mister Walrus: It's CAPTAIN Earthworm Jim to you.

SewerShark

@Kaiser-Machead: Movies should be...and AWAYS be, a passive experience

SewerShark

@Killjoy:
sometimes those people are great. When I saw the new transformers I couldn't hear any of the dialog over the crying babies or the Mexican behind me translating the whole movie for his 70yr old mother that didn't understand the premise of giant robots to begin with. I thought the movie was great! Then I get home and the reviews say it's horrible.

rainsfather

@floman: SIGGRAPH 1995, I believe, where the audience held up a ruler with reflective green on one side and reflective red on the other. The left half of the room "voted" red or green to move a pong paddle up or down, against the right half of the room. For the virtual skier, I believe it was a full audience vote.

brutek

@Geisrud: I wish there were drafthouses in LA. Damn you, Austin!!!

The best I can do is to bring a flask and buy a big soda in the theater. Pour the entire flask in that giant cup and I'm good to go.

jcrockerman

@Kaiser-Machead: Or go to one of them new schmancy high-falutin' theaters that serve alcohol. That could make this bearable.

Between the conversationalists, the texters and the post-natal outpatients, I expect the ship in the game will turn endless circles or fly straight into the sun four times out of five.

What if I like seeing explosions (Transformers 2:ROTF), but also PG movies like Ice Age 3. Would it be socially acceptable to attempt to veer the ship into the asteroids, hoping for a terrifying 3-D explosion, being that most of the kids ( <8 ) in the audience would probably be scared?

If Transformers was interactive maybe the audience could have made it better! Or at least let the Decepticons live.

Bongoes

so there'll have to be some coordination, then.

mzo

Is it just me, or is that Earthworm Jim?

Hello Mister Walrus

This sounds like stuff that used to appear at SIGGRAPH back in the 90s. Good fun actually. Crowd goes crazy, has a good laugh, and leaves before the film starts.

floman

@Kaiser-Machead: Silly me, I paid no attention that this is just in the UK (for now). God save the Cinema.

Kaiser-Machead

So basically, be sure to bring my iPod to ride out the first 15 minutes of the pre-flick shenanigans? Way ahead of you.

Kaiser-Machead