We already showed you a floating cinemanow we’re going for more. In China they are going full steam ahead with the who 8kWhat is this? A new twist on 4D, super screen resolutions and conventional room layouts. A truly immersive experience without the need to resort to virtual reality glasses.
You enter Changhong 8K Cinema through the door of a shopping mall. Then you have to go through an aviation museum, corridors with lots of LED lights and a 360-degree screen that hides a door.
The room itself is a space with several seats arranged one after the other, as if they were in a typical free-fall ride at an amusement park. In front of them is a giant spherical screen.
Before the screening, you should leave your belongings in the lockers. Then you have to sit in your seat, fasten your seatbelt and remember that your hands are the most powerful thing in the world and that you should not let the cell phone that you, almost by inertia, will take out of your pocket during the movie to make an Instagram story, fall into the void.
A space-themed screensaver welcomes the spectators, who wait impatiently for the show to begin without knowing exactly what they are going to see. When the lights go out, the mechanism that holds the seats turns on and a mechanical arm brings them forward, just a few centimeters further than the line that separates the floor from the abyss.
The seats extend far enough forward that the viewer’s legs dangle from a considerable height, surrounded by a semicircular screen with 8K resolution that leaves virtually no black spaces in the viewing range. The movie begins.
One sees practically nothing but the screen when the performance begins. Photo: Clarín
The one that Funfly The film is projected to Clarín is a helicopter simulation. The film begins with a scene similar to the final moment of 2001: A Space Odyssey and continues with an aerial tour of the Chinese paradise. The movement of the shots is in unison with that of the seats. It is as if the spectators were pilots who see everything through the windshield. For greater realism there are bursts of smell and splashes of water in accordance with what is shown on the screen.
It’s 20 minutes of an impressive first-person show that effectively makes the audience feel like they’re traveling in a helicopter (Why not a movie that recreates the view that the players of the game had?) integrated from the sky in the World Cup celebrations?).
The entrance to the 8k cinema costs 128 yuan (18 dollars). The fashion for this type of entertainment was also reflected in the 2024 China-Africa Cooperation Forum, where there was a stand where journalists could walk into the centre of a curved screen and experience something similar.
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This is what the view looks like from inside an immersive room in Beijing.
Simulation is part of the project Around the World FUNFLY which, according to its founder, aims to “allow Chinese people to explore their homeland in a different way.”
These types of films – there are those about diving in the sea, a flight around the world, walks in space and a landing on the moon – take approximately 8 years to make.
The company specialized in film and technology, YiFei Technologywas in charge and his team traveled more than 100 thousand kilometers of 137 landscapes (including some not yet explored by man) to be able to create this type of shows that, apparently, are what is coming next.
