Movies are an escapist fare. For the relatively cheap cost of
a ticket they allow a viewer to have a few minutes of reprieve from their life,
transporting them into a world full of spectacle and without complications. This
fact is well exploited by high-performing blockbusters, which revolve around
simple characters, cheap thrills and happy endings. People want escape from the
mundane, and Hollywood delivers.
Escapism is at the heart of Sony’s new 3D Viewer. These
glasses literally remove any distance between viewer and movie, essentially removing
one of the barriers of complete immersion. That seems to be the goal at least: To give
users the feeling of living the movie, surrendering their eyes and ears to it
and nothing else. And, on that point, Sony seems to have succeeded. The 3D
viewer looks to be an excellent immersion device.
