360 Theater in the Round

Warning: this post has nothing to do with living in Switzerland.

So one of my huge pet peeves about going to movie theaters is that there is a cluster of seats in the center of the theater that are always taken first. Get to a movie late and you're out of luck. This is, in part, one of the reasons why I don't go to movies as much (and in Geneva, you have to watch out for the V.O. asterisk on movies or else you'll be watching Jackass 2 in French the whole night). Okay - I lied. This post mentions Switzerland.

My brainstorm was having theaters-in-the-round. A completely round movie theaters in which all the seats had the exact same viewing angle -- no one craning their neck to look up at the screen or peering down from the nosebleeds. You could imagine a circular colliseum in which every seat had the same image.

Now it looks like it's possible. Unless it's totally fake. These guys have managed to create images that appear identical from whatever angle you view them at. Some YouTubers have labelled them "holographic" and others have poo-pooed the term. But think of the possibilities: theaters where all the seats have the same perspective. Grain silos across the midwest converted into multi-story movie theaters-in-the-round. Think about it!