"Wish You Were Here"

Sharing experiences. Something we all have, and continue to do, whether it is our parents' photoalbums or our photos and videos we share via facebook, youtube and so on. We have written countless books and articles of our first hand accounts, describing every observation of details that stood out to us in our surroundings and sometimes even the smell, in order to immerse readers and viewers, because we truly wish we could share those experiences with them. Even in fiction, authors, movie writers, directors, artists, actors do their best to convince you of the reality of stories congured in great creative minds of the world.

But we still wish we could go there. To that moment or that place. No matter how high resolution or great 3D effect on our square limited portals to those worlds are. Those examples are proof of that fact. Some say we are getting closer and closer as technology is getting more advanced and innovative. Video games, let players take interactive part of a story sometimes affecting the storyline, creating our own moments. Whether it was playing Zelda or GoldenEye on Nintendo 64 back in the day, or your own Battlefield moments, your knife throw across the map in Call of Duty, or traveling through the great open landscapes of a modern day MMO. We spend thousands of hours in these worlds someone created for us, because they had a vision, a fantasy, a dream they wished to realize.

But we still wished we could really go there. To stand on top of mountains and watch the landscape, make eyecontact with our favorite characters, perhaps even fly in the sky above the land we read about.

The Oculus Rift which I have written about before is a great leap towards that dream being realised. But it is what people are making for and combining with the Oculus which will take us there.

Today I stumbled upon this video, where some sort of 3D camera with a 360 degree lense(or at least several lenses combined), have recorded footage in 360 which combined with the Oculus gives someone a truly immersive look into a day on different locations. Makes me wonder about the future of cinematics, if it is possible to create a full 360 degree-look where you want-experience in film.


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