Immersive HDTV

grape jelly writes: "The Electronic Times has a story on a German company developing a system called Interactive Virtual View Video (IVVV). The idea is to send a number of HDTV feeds to a set-top box which will be merged to provide a headset-wearing user the ability to change his/her viewing angle or even move around within the image."

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Re:I'm not first,

[glitch!]

but it sure beaks smellovision.

I believe you are refering to Odorama. This was hyped as one of the innovations of the movie Polyester. When you went into the theater, you get a scratch-n-sniff card with about a dozen numbered dots. When you see the dot in the corner of the screen, you are supposed to scratch that dot and smell...

Naturally, to keep the surprise, the dot would show on the screen a few seconds before you knew what it was supposed to be. I remember air freshener, natural gas, natural gas, model airplane glue.

By the way, I do not recommend this film.