3D-iots
S omewhere in 2009, do you remember holding an overpriced ticket for a movie about blue people? The one with wallpaper-like prettiness and a plot aimed at nine-year-olds? If you do, then read on.
James Cameron’s Avatar became the highest-grossing movie ever, breaching the $500mn mark in just over a month and earning a total of US$1,843,201,268 worldwide. Also, it's probably one of the very few movies that became famous for what went into the making, than the story itself.
Avatar featured previously unknown filmmaking tech — the first movie to be shot with a 3D camera, the first to use extensive motion capture and more. In essence, Cameron’s ‘screensaver’ was ‘40 per cent live action and 60 per cent CG’ — everything was just space age, gizmodish’, and blue!
But the reviews?
Critics hacked at the story, the commentary on ‘imperialism’ and the utterly predictable plot that was lacking every bit of soul that good films are made of. It was all just eye-candy at the end of the day — absolutely nothing to take back home,
or learn.
Except for a bunch from the television and tablet PC business. They were impressed with what Cameron had to offer. They chatted, drank tea, bowed and left. Only to come back later with inventions that made Middle-Eastern vanity seem almost charitable.
Taking off after cousin television, the tablet is now arming itself with the latest in 3D tech. Some don’t need the glasses and some will have you looking ridiculous while scrolling through seven inches of plastic. You only need to step into an electronics store to see what we’re talking about. Rows and rows of parents and kids watching the bird pounce on the poor mouse in 3D — some even end up flapping their arms.
Is the future here a little too early? Shouldn't they be trying to put the Tablet PC within everyone’s reach before adding a few gimmicks to the price tag?
3D really has to convince us that it has a rightful place in the living room. It has to tell us that Sachin’s shots are better viewed in this format and that email just flew through your face when you hit ‘send’.
The world’s had its ‘normal’ entertainment for over 75 years now — we’ve been reading, watching movies, playing video games just about fine with our two eyes and do we really need new perspective? Right away?
We hope the guys behind 3D tech see things our way. Because buying teles which make a dead mouse seem closer for over a lakh, seems a bit frivolous and soulless — much like that fancy movie about blue people.
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